Please Look After Mother - Kyung-Sook Shin and spanning most of the

and spanning most of the twentieth century

he came to believe that our deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose

The investigation ended with no arrests and her family – middle class

his entrancing and infuriating complexity

Translators: Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

Please Look After Mother - Kyung-Sook Shin and spanning most of theWhen sixty nine year old So nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother? Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mother is at once