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Please Look After Mother - Shin Kyung-sook
Please Look After Mother
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Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, So-nyo is... show more
Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, So-nyo is separated from her husband when the doors close on a packed train. As her children and husband search the streets, they recall So-nyo's life, and all they have left unsaid. Through their piercing voices, we begin to discover the desires, heartaches, and secrets she harboured within. And as the mystery of her disappearance unravels, we uncover a larger mystery, that of all mothers and children: how affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love. Compassionate, redemptive and beautifully written, Please Look After Mother will reconnect you to the story of your own family, and to the forgotten sacrifices that lie at its heart.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780297860730 (0297860739)
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Pages no: 237
Edition language: English
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The Last Reader
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5.0 Book Review : Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
How much do you know your mother? Are you often mad at her because she’s irritating? Does she always ask you to do some household chores? Or are you considering her as the witch in your own fairytale? Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin is about the disappearance of an illiterate and elderly ...
Sony Luvs Books
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4.0 Please Look after Mom
Please Look After Mom has been on my TBR pile for a while and one day browsing through the library shelves I spotted a copy. And thought this must be fate, so you know the rest. I wasn’t sure what to expect I had never read a book written by a Korean writer before. But I have watched a lot of good K...
ibrahemz
ibrahemz rated it
3.0 Please Look After Mom
جميلةٌ هذه الرواية .. وإنسانية جدًا ...أكثر ما أعجبني .. بعد حكايتها الأصلية عن الأم التي تبذل كل شيءٍ من أجل زوجها وأولادها، ثم تختفي فجأة ليشعروا بالفراغ الهـائل المترتيب على غيابها، أكثر ما أعجبني هو تلك التفاصيل الإنسانية الصغيرة التي تتشابه لدى الناس عامة ... فبالرغم من أن الكاتبة "كورية" إلا أ...
Barrita
Barrita rated it
Este es de esos libros donde la historia no es particularmente interesante, pero tiene momentos que llevan a reflexionar sobre aspectos de la ida cotidiana que damos por sentados, así como la forma en que nos relacionamos con la gente que nos rodea.Lo mas interesante es que al principio no me agrada...
Pingwing's Bookshelf
Pingwing's Bookshelf rated it
4.0
(From http://www.pingwings.ca/please-look-after-mom/)I really wanted to read this book, but at the same time, I put off reading it because I worried it would be a gut-wrenching, emotional book and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for that. So I put it off and put it off and put it off, and finally las...
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