Please Look After Mother - Kyung-Sook Shin Translators: Jennifer Russell and Sophia

Translators: Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

The investigation ended with no arrests and her family – middle class

her communist father

mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated

” she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany

Please Look After Mother - Kyung-Sook Shin Translators: Jennifer Russell and SophiaWhen 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