Please Look After Mom
​by Kyung-sook Shin

Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2011
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2011
New York Times Bestseller
Amazon's Top 10 Literature & Fiction Books, 2011
10 Titles to Pick Up Now, O Magazine
Indie Next List, "Great Reads from Booksellers You Trust"
Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011

A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea, ​Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, and of the desires, heartaches, and secrets they discover she harbored within. 

On a family visit to the city, Mom is right behind her husband when the train pulls out of Seoul Station without her, and she is lost, possibly forever. Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband, and through Mom's own words in the novel's shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day, and explore an even deeper mystery—of motherhood itself.


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Review Highlights

"Shin's prose, intimate and hauntingly spare in this translation by Chi-Young Kim...powerfully conveys grief's bewildering immediacy... [A] raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood."
—The New York Times Book Review

"The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel in translation I've read in many seasons."
—The Wall Street Journal

"...nostalgic but unsentimental, brutally well observed, and, in this flawlessly smooth translation by Chi-Young Kim, it allows a sobering account of a vanished past.. We must hope there will be more translations to follow."
—The Times Literary Supplement

"Translated deftly by native English speaker Chi-Young Kim."
—The Globe and Mail