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Please Look After Mother

by Kyung-Sook Shin - £8.99  Orion Publishing Co (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781474621687 | ISBN 10: 1474621686

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 Mother?
 
Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mother is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

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