6/8/2023 0 Comments Please look after mom ending![]() ![]() ![]() Shin is along with Kim In-suk and Gong Ji-young, one of the prominent new wave of female writers from the so-called 386 Generation. ![]() She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella Winter’s Fable after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school. Her parents were farmers who could not afford to send her to high school, so at sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. Shin Kyung-sook was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup in Jeolla Province in southern Korea. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book. ![]() 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 million-plus-copy best seller in Korea-a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation-this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. ![]()
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