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Zusatztext Please Look After Mother made me want to phone my mum Informationen zum Autor Shin Kyung-sook was born in a remote province of Korea to parents who worked the fields. She left school aged 16 and was sent to work at a factory in Seoul. Here she read books in secret under the conveyor belt and saved to enrol in evening classes. She made her debut as a writer at the age of 22 and has won every major Korean literary prize since. Combining huge critical and commercial success! she is a major literary figure in Korea! and a pioneer of fiction with a strong emotional undertow. Klappentext Vulnerable and often confused after a stroke! So-nyo's family are desperately concerned when she is separated from them at Seoul station. The novel is told from four different view points as the family confront their emotions and as the ghostly voice of So-nyo looks back at her own childhood and unfulfilled ambitions. Combining a unique setting with universal themes. PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is an intimate exploration of the emotional distance between small-town parents and their more cosmopolitan children! told with heart-wrenching honesty. Combining a unique setting with universal themes, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is a tear-jerking, beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love Zusammenfassung PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is about So-nyo! a wife and mother! who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. A few years before the novel begins she suffered a stroke! leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now! travelling from her home village in the countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children! she is separated from her husband as the doors close on a packed train. Her children and husband desperately follow every lead but fail to find So-nyo! last seen wandering into the hustle-and-bustle of Seoul station. The novel is told from four different viewpoints! following So-nyo's husband and two of her children as they lash out at each then grow closer again! each confronting their indifference to So-nyo's pain and loneliness. We also hear the ghostly voice of So-nyo! looking back at her childhood and unfulfilled ambitions! and yearning to be with her own mother - putting herself before her husband and children even if only in death. ...
