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Title	:	Please Look After Mom
Author	:	Shin Kyung-sook
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 237 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2011 by Knopf (first published November 5th 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Asia. Contemporary. Family. Literature. Asian Literature. Novels. Adult

Please Look After Mom

Shin Kyung-sook

Hardcover | Pages: 237 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 24969 Users | 4394 Reviews

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An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies author's Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harbored within.

When sixty-nine year old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt. As they argue over the "Missing" flyers they are posting throughout the city - how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text - they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom?

Told by the alternating voices of Mom's daughter, son, her husband and, in the shattering conclusion, by Mom herself, the novel pieces together, Rashomon-style, a life that appears ordinary but is anything but.

This is a mystery of one mother that reveals itself to be the mystery of all our mothers: about her triumphs and disappointments and about who she is on her own terms, separate from who she is to her family. If you have ever been a daughter, a son, a husband or a mother, Please Look After Mom is a revelation - one that will bring tears to your eyes.

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Original Title:	엄마를 부탁해
ISBN:	0307593916 (ISBN13: 9780307593917)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Korea Seoul, South Korea(Korea, Republic of)
Literary Awards:	Man Asian Literary Prize (2011), Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)

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This book is very unique. I really can't say I've ever read a book like this before. There are 4 alternating points of view, and the author often uses the 2nd person narrative to tell the story. I'm surprised to say that I LOVED that. It made me feel so engaged in the novel. I'd really love to see more books written from this perspective if it could be done this successfully. The writing is not complicated, but the themes and the story are. There is a lot to consider about who this woman was,

Wow....wait, I need to capitalize this: WOW...This story took me through an emotional roller coaster that reminded me of all my personal shortcomings in the relationship department with my own family and my Mom. The last time I was this wrecked was when my father passed away of cancer 2 years ago.The story begins when the 70-year old mother of a family disappears from a Seoul train station. The family, 5 grown children and her husband, is desperate to find her and yet, on the other hand, are

"Please Look After Mom" is about a remarkable woman who is virtually invisible to her husband and adult children until she disappears one day in a Seoul subway station. Her absence allows them to see and appreciate her for the first time. This powerful novel about motherhood resonated in a very personal way for me - both as a daughter and mother.

An elderly woman, in poor health, disappears in Seoul and her family tries to find her. As they do so, the reader learns about her life and the sacrifices she made for her husband and children.I would have liked this book a lot better if it had dispensed with the moralizing. The narrative itself held my attention, and the book would have been interesting as a simple family portrait. But I felt browbeaten while reading it, as though the author were constantly wagging her finger at me for failing

Wow, that was bizarre and bad. What starts out as an interesting family novel turns into an extended hagiography of "Mom", a woman so amazingly selfless and nurturing that puppies, ducklings, fields and orphans spring into worshipful life around her -- only her callous children and faithless husband don't see the value of this woman, who secretly feeds the poor, delivers the baby of a man who stole from her, sleeps in the cold, and donates her old-age mite to orphans. She is so selfless that --

DNF at 50% - Honestly just couldn't get into it :(

Kyung-sook Shin is a best selling Korean author who is finally in translation here in the States. And, oh my, how glad I am. Her writing is mesmerizing, deep and beautiful. She pushes the reader into the story by literally using referring to "you" as the narrating character. "You" are looking for your 69 year old mother who disappeared in a Seoul subway station on the way to a birthday dinner. Sometimes "you" are the oldest daughter, other times "you" are the favored son. Sometimes you are