Please Look After Mom
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A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation--"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. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? 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.
At once steeped in the beauty and complexities of the East and rich with a universal tenderness, "Please Look After Mom" has a revelatory emotional power. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you've read this book.
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. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? 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.
At once steeped in the beauty and complexities of the East and rich with a universal tenderness, "Please Look After Mom" has a revelatory emotional power. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you've read this book.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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Is this book availble as an ebook?
Yes, this book is definitely available in Ebook format: for Kindle, Nook and Kobo and probably some others too but I checked these 3 main formats.
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Absolutely superb. Poignant, sensitive, moving and well written. I would recommend this book.
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iam going to read a book called please look after mom and people tell me if its good
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I really liked this book is based upon the contents. It was an eye-opener in the sence that views on the missing mom were given from the point of view of some of her children (not all) and from the husband's view.I couldn't feel anything but... more
