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Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.

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Main Author: Sin, Kyŏng-suk (Author)
Other Authors: Kim, Chi-Young (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Korean
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Mothers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Sacrifice > Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) > Fiction.
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Summary:Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.
Item Description:Originally published in a slightly different form in South Korea as Ŏmma rŭl put'ak hae by Changbi Publishers, P'aju-si Kyŏnggi-do, in 2008.
Physical Description:237 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780307593917
0307593916
Author Notes:Kyung-sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France's Prix de l'Inaperçu. Please Look After Mom is her first book to appear in English and will be published in nineteen countries. Currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City, she lives in Seoul.

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