Please Look After Mother: The 10th anniversary of the million copy Korean bestseller (W&N Essentials) - Softcover

Intimate and hauntingly spare. . . . A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)

A moving portrayal of the surprising nature, sudden sacrifices, and secret reveries of motherhood (ELLE)

The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel in translation I've read in many seasons ... Every sentence is saturated in detail ... It tells an almost unbearably affecting story of remorse and belated wisdom that reminds us how globalism-at the human level-can tear souls apart and leave them uncertain of where to turn (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

A captivating story, written with an understanding of the shortcomings of traditional ways of modern life. It is nostalgic but unsentimental, brutally well observed and, in this flawlessly smooth translation by Chi-Young Kim, it offers a sobering account of a vanished past. ... We must hope there will be more translations to follow (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)

This story about family, hope and guilt has universal reach. (Big Issue in the North)

Tender, thoughtful and well-crafted... (Boyd Tonkin The Independent)

I found what is in one sense a terribly sad book, life-affirming, portraying the sorrows and joys of the parent-child relationship, familiar whether you live in rural South Korea, or South London (THE TIMES)

Full of emotion, this beautifully written book is like nothing I have ever read before and I thoroughly recommend it. (South Wales Argus)

a captivating story, written with an understanding of the shortcomings of traditional ways and modern life. It is nostalgic but unsentimental, brutally well observed and, in this flawlessly smooth translation by Chi-Young Kim, it offers a sobering account of a vanished past... We must hope there are more translations to follow. (THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)

The universal resonance of family life lifts a novel rooted in the experience of Korean modernity to international success. A best-seller in her native South Korea, Shin's Please Look After Mom tells the story of Park So-nyo, a devoted, do-all wife and mother who mysteriously goes missing... the book-Shin's first to be translated into English- is a moving portrayal of the surprising nature, sudden sacrifices, and secret reveries of motherhood. (Lisa Shea Elle)

Kyung-sook Shin is the author of 6 novels in addition to Please Look After Mother, which will be published in 19 countries, and has sold almost 1.5 million copies in South Korea alone. She is one of the country's most widely read and acclaimed novelists, having won the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Isang Literary Prize, as well as France's Prix de l'Inaperçu. She lives in Seoul and in New York.