![]() ![]() It’s also an allegory for the situation of the nation as a whole, one which may have sacrificed its past in order to ensure a prosperous future.īefore you start thinking that this is a wonderfully heart-warming story though, one you might want to look for on your local library database, let me give you a piece of advice – don’t bother. As they begin to share stories, they realise that the picture they had of her is deeply flawed, and each of them realises just how much she meant to them – if only too late. However, the novel is less about the search for the mother than a reevaluation of her life, seen through the eyes of the people who have taken her for granted for so long. She becomes separated from her husband at the city’s main train station and, despite the family’s best efforts, cannot be found. It’s a story in five parts, told from the points of view of the titular mother’s family members after her disappearance on a visit to Seoul to see her family. ![]() ![]() Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother (translated by Chi-Young Kim) is a Korean million-selling novel, due to be published in twenty-three countries and short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. ![]() I am a fairly placid sort of blogger, one unwilling to lay into novels in the way some reviewers do, but there are some books which, for some reason or other, just annoy me. ![]()
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