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Shin Kyung-sook
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Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it 9 years ago
It's not very often that a work of fiction gets to me as much as this one did. It was beautiful and haunting and familiar and foreign all at the same time. The book is written as a sort of memoir. The protagonist reminds the reader several times that it is both fiction and memoir. She goes travels b...
The Last Reader
The Last Reader rated it 11 years ago
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
Sony Luvs Books rated it 12 years ago
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 12 years ago
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 13 years ago
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...
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