Please Look After Mom

2011-04-05 Fiction

Author : Kyung-Sook Shin
Release : 2011-04-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 498/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Please Look After Mom by : Kyung-Sook Shin

Download or read book Please Look After Mom written by Kyung-Sook Shin. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

I'll Be Right There

2014-06-03 Fiction

Author : Kyung-Sook Shin
Release : 2014-06-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I'll Be Right There written by Kyung-Sook Shin. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A love story between friends. It is so well written. [Kyung-sook Shin] has this use of language that is just beautiful and poetic. It’s a great book if you’re looking to escape.” —Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling author How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief. Yoon’s formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.

Violets

2022-04-12 Fiction

Author : Kyung-Sook Shin
Release : 2022-04-12
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Violets written by Kyung-Sook Shin. This book was released on 2022-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, "a moving delve into a lonely psyche" that follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul (YZ Chin). San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul’s bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive customers. Fueled by a quiet desperation to jump-start her life, she plunges headfirst into obsession with a passing magazine photographer. In Violets, best-selling author Kyung-Sook Shin explores misogyny, erasure, and repressed desire, as San desperately searches for both autonomy and attachment in the unforgiving reality of contemporary Korean society.

Please Look After Mother

2022-01-13 Fiction

Author : Kyung-Sook Shin
Release : 2022-01-13
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 687/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Please Look After Mother written by Kyung-Sook Shin. This book was released on 2022-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 'An authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture' Gary Shteyngart 'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve' Guardian 'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood' New York Times 'The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel' Wall Street Journal 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 Mother? Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love. With an introduction by Banana Yoshimoto A W&N Essential

माँ का ध्यान रखना

2012 Families

Author : Kyŏng-suk Sin
Release : 2012
Genre : Families
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book माँ का ध्यान रखना written by Kyŏng-suk Sin. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel based on relation and struggle of life after mother.

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