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Please Look After Mom
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ISBN-13:
9780307948977
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2012
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Shin Kyung-Sook
Gewicht:
170 g
Format:
173x103x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 was the first woman to be awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize (for Please Look After Mom), and she has also 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. It will be published in twenty-nine countries and has sold over 2 million copies in South Korea alone.
Die beeindruckende und tief bewegende Geschichte einer Familie auf der Suche nach ihrer Mutter, die eines Nachmittag mitten in den Menschenmassen der U-Bahn von Seoul spurlos verschwindet.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 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?
A terrific novel that stayed with me long after I d finished its final, haunting pages. Abraham Verghese, bestselling author of The Covenant of Water
A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood. The New York Times Book Review
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.
A suspenseful, haunting, achingly lovely novel about the hidden lives, wishes, struggles and dreams of those we think we know best. The Seattle Times
A terrific novel that stayed with me long after I d finished its final, haunting pages. Abraham Verghese, bestselling author of The Covenant of Water
A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood. The New York Times Book Review
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.
A suspenseful, haunting, achingly lovely novel about the hidden lives, wishes, struggles and dreams of those we think we know best. The Seattle Times