Please Look After Mom
A Novel
New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage contemporaries edition.
Description: 254 pages ; 21 cm
When 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 Mom? Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. -- Amazon.com.
Subjects:
Mothers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Sacrifice -- Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Sacrifice -- Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0307739511
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Originally published in slightly different form in South Korea as "Ŏmma rŭl put'ak hae" by Changbi Publishers, Pʻaju-si Kyŏnggi-do, in 2008.
"This translation published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... in 2011"--Title page verso.
Man Asian Literary Prize, 2011
"This translation published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... in 2011"--Title page verso.
Man Asian Literary Prize, 2011