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Please Look After Mom

Please Look After Mom

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Paperback (03 Jan 2012)

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Publisher's Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  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." -The Seattle Times

Book information

ISBN: 9780307948977
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: International edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 168g
Height: 106mm
Width: 173mm
Spine width: 23mm