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Combining a unique setting with universal themes, please look after mother is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love. About the author kyungsook shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of south koreas most widely read and acclaimed novelists. When sixtynineyearold sonyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. She is the first south korean and first woman to win the man asian literary prize in 2012 for please look after 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.
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