PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin

PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin

RM and V discussed this book in an October 2017 livestream, and V revealed the book was actually recommended to him by a fan. Written in second-person and first-person narration in parts, the book tells the moving story of So-nyo, who gets separated from her husband at a train station, and her family, who search for her as they recall memories and realise how they took her for granted

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

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.” —Seattle Times