Please look after mom

A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation--Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they discover she harbored within. On a family visit to the ci...

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Main Author: Sin, Kyŏng-suk
Other Authors: Various
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Language:English
Published: New York : Books on Tape, 2011.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Summary:A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation--Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they discover she harbored within. On a family visit to the city, Mom is right behind her husband when the train pulls out of Seoul Station without her, and she is lost, possibly forever. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband, and through Mom's own words in the novel's shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day, and explore an even deeper mystery--of motherhood itself. At once steeped in the beauty and complexities of the East and rich...
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 sound file)
Playing Time:07:57:17
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 114312 KB) or OverDrive Media Console (file size: 223995 KB).
ISBN:9780307747396
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.