The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after Mom Homesick and alone, a teenage girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is...

Хрупкость человеческого существования, неумолимая скоротечность отведенного каждому из нас земного времени, невозможность проникнуть во внутренний мир другого человека и его до конца понять – все это мы ощущаем в сюжетах 26 новелл, вошедших в эту книгу. Каждая история окрашена юмором, ироническим,...

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...

Od trenutka kada se 69-godišnja So-nyo na peronu podzemne željeznice u Seoulu odvoji od muža i nestane u gužvi, gubi joj se svaki trag. Obitelj je u šoku, a već formuliranje letka o nestaloj kod svih...

Sepasang suami-istri berangkat ke kota untuk mengunjungi anak-anak mereka yang telah dewasa. Sang suami bergegas naik ke gerbong kereta bawah tanah dan mengira istrinya mengikuti di belakangnya...

Хрупкость человеческого существования, неумолимая скоротечность отведенного каждому из нас земного времени, невозможность проникнуть во внутренний мир другого человека и его до конца понять - все это...

Nauja Man Asian literatūros premija apdovanoto romano „Prašau, pasirūpink mama" autorės knyga! Naujasis Man Asian literatūros premijos laimėtojos Shin Kyung-sook romanas nukelia į XIX amžiaus...

Seul, 1890. È solo una bambina orfana, Yi Jin, quando arriva come serva alla corte Joseon, ma c'è qualcosa in lei che smuove il cuore della regina. È per questo, per la sua fragilità di uccellino e...

XIX amžiaus pabaigos Korėja – dar kitaip tuomet vadinta Čosono karalyste. Intrigų ir įtakų paieškos metas, kai į šalį skverbiasi vis daugiau Vakarų pasaulio gyvenimo detalių. Į šalį, kuri yra uždara, tačiau intriguojanti savo geografine vieta. Į griežtas kasdienybės tradicijas turinčią šalį,...

"Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere, ho la certezza di essere ancora felice": così lo scrittore francese Jules Renard, consapevole del fatto che la vasta e molteplice foresta di libri ancora da esplorare rappresenta uno spazio di libertà e di felicità sempre a portata di mano e...

When French delegate Victor Collin de Plancy first meets Korean court dancer Yi Jin in the last years of the Joseon Dynasty, he is spellbound by her grace and beauty. When he greets her with “Bonjour,” he’s shocked when she responds in his language. Instinctively, he snaps a photo with a hidden...

Tai tikra istorija paremtas romanas. Prancūzijos pasiuntinys Kolenas de Plansi iš pirmo žvilgsnio įsimyli rūmų šokėją Ri Džinę ir, net žinodamas, jog ši iki gyvenimo pabaigos liks vergė, prisipažįsta karaliui apie savo jausmus ir gauna leidimą ją vesti.

„Perskaitęs paskutinį Shin Kyung-sook romano „Ri Džinė“ skyrių, buvau taip sukrėstas, kad dar ilgai sėdėjau lyg apdujęs, net nekilo mintis imtis epilogo. Tai ir buvo didžiausias iššūkis verčiant: kad lietuvis skaitytojas pajustų tai, ką jutau aš, skaitydamas knygą korėjietiškai. O kaip tai pavyko,...

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...