Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom...

Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve...

Park So-nyo, una humilde campesina, ha sido durante toda la vida una abnegada madre de familia, una mujer que siempre lo ha sacrificado todo para dar una educación a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su búsqueda...

En su mayor parte, los últimos cien años de la literatura coreana han transcurrido entre el dolor y la violencia. Si bien la península se deshizo desus últimos vestigios feudales y accedió a la modernidad a partir de lacaída de la dinastía Choson (1392-1910), en las décadas siguientes...

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...

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.Told through the...

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.Told through the...

Kohtalo kuljettaa kuvankauniin korealaisnaisen kauas merten taakse Kyung-sook Shinin aistivoimaisessa historiallisessa romaanissa. Yi Jiniin rakastunut nuori ranskalainen diplomaatti on saanut...

Giliai kiekvienos šeimos širdy glūdi daugybė užmirštų pasiaukojimų. Kai pagrindinėje Seulo metro stotyje lyg į vandenį prapuola 69–erių Pak Sonjo, jos vyras ir vaikai nieko nelaukdami imasi paieškų...

İncə və dərin düşüncələrin tərənnümçüsü, yazıçı Şin Qyonq-Suqun şah əsəri hesab edilən ana hekayəsi, ana vasitəsilə danışılan ailə hekayəsi, ən böyük sevgi hekayəsi... Park Sonyo – ərinə sadiq,...

Över en och en halv miljon sålda exemplar i Sydkorea. Internationellt genombrott för en av Koreas mest framgångrika författare. Utgiven i 23 länder. En enastående och rörande roman om en familjs...

Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history...

From K-pop girl groups to the trend-setting runways of Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea has the world transfixed with their unique take on arts and culture. With more than 80 literary works set to be translated and published in 22 languages, Korean authors are now set to spark plenty of buzz in 2019...

Please Look After Mom by the South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin opens with a family in disarray. Travelling from their home in the Korean countryside to visit their now-grown children in Seoul, an ageing couple find themselves separated from each other in a busy subway station

Nors apie savo artimuosius ir mylimuosius tariamės žinantys viską, anaiptol tai nėra tiesa. Toks jau yra žmogus – mėgstantis individualius džiaugsmus ir vargus uždaryti savyje, paslėpti juos nuo išorinio pasaulio. Būtent apie artimiausių mums žmonių pažinimą kalba Pietų Korėjos rašytoja Shin Kyung-...

Jeong You-jeong è tra le autrici di successo della Corea del Sud. Merito anche del suo Yu-jin, il protagonista de Le origini del male (Feltrinelli), nei cui meandri mentali la scrittrice penetra rivelandone lanatura. Un delitto efferato man mano sempre meno inspiegabile, l’ombra opprimente di una...

韩国当代文学中的父亲与母亲形象，常常具有特定的指涉，在很多时候，父亲象征着半岛的国族史，而母亲则象征着半岛的受难史。不过，进入21世纪后，在韩国政治渐趋稳定，经济持续快速发展，个人平均国民生产总值突破了两万美元的同时，年轻人逐渐产生出对个人的强烈渴望，以及与“国家民族”“父亲母亲”为代表的前现代共同体切割的欲望。

Hur väl känner vi våra föräldrar? Vet vi vilka personer de är egentligen, vilka de är förutom ens föräldrar? Känner vi till deras bakgrund, vad de ville bli, vad de blev och varför de blev dem som de blev? Känner vi till deras drömmar och förhoppningar? Och de som svarar ja, är ni verkligen...

The setting of the story is in Korea,the countryside where an old couple live and Seoul where their children live.Story starts with their mom missing because she accidentally parted from her husband on the trip they took to Seoul to celebrate their birthdays with their children.As the story...

I chose to read Kyung-Sook Shin's novel, Please Look After Mother, for the South Korea stop on my Around the World in 80 Books challenge. Please Look After Mother has sold almost 1.5 million copies in South Korea alone since its publication in 2009; the author is one of the country's most...

Kyung-sook Shin is a best selling Korean author who is finally in translation here in the States. And, oh my, how glad I am. Her writing is mesmerizing, deep and beautiful. She pushes the reader into the story by literally using referring to "you" as the narrating 
character. "You" are...

This novel about a Korean family cut and passed through me, stabbing me, penetrating my soul.

Yeah, that's the adjective I want to use, piercing. That word describes my thoughts about PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin.

The novel's story, which recounts interactions and...