Kyung-sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu. Please Look After Mom is her first book to appear in English and will be published in nineteen countries. Currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City, she lives in Seoul.
This novel from widely acclaimed Korean author Shin focuses on motherhood and family guilt. Park So-nyo, mother of four now-adult children, has gone missing in a Seoul train station on the way to visit them. The novel is told in four parts, from the perspectives of, first, her daughter, and then, her firstborn son, her husband, and finally, So-nyo herself. Composed almost entirely in second-person narration, the writing is sharp, biting, and intensely moving. So-nyo’s children continually battle with their own guilt for not taking better care of her while reminiscing about the times when they were young, growing up in incredible poverty in the countryside. The children come to terms with their mother’s absence in their own ways, and their father repents for a lifetime of neglect. When So-nyo’s voice enters the narrative, the portrait of a troubled but loving family is complete. Secrets are revealed, and the heart of a mother is beautifully exposed. This Korean million-plus-copy best-seller is an impressive exploration of family love, poverty, and triumphing over hardship.
I still remember why I purchased this book in the first place; I learnt about it one day somewhere near Mother's Day while surfing at Oprah.com (http://www.oprah.com/book/Please-Look-After-Mom-by-Kyung-sook-Shin?editors_pick_id=29973). What struck me mos...
评分在这世上,每个人都是来的来,走的走,似乎只有母亲能证明我们曾经出现过。分娩的痛苦是那么强烈和明显的记忆,乡下的老人总是说那是女人在鬼门关转了一圈。我不理解那种痛楚,但我能感受到她们想要形容的心情。从出生那一刻,我们都和自己的母亲有了一种注定的关联,似血与水...
评分晚高峰拥挤的地铁车厢里能掩盖住咕咕作响饿瘪的肠胃,仿佛一个个嗷嗷待哺的婴儿,这不过是城市的轰鸣和喧嚣夺走了饥饿的宣言,换做故作镇定的隐忍,他们的胃连着千里之外的故乡,母亲在氤氲的厨房里铿锵有节奏的切着脆生生的青菜,伴随着灶上一口冒着水汽,咕嘟直响的锅。“所...
评分关乎于描写亲情的书,并不是第一次看到,感动的、震撼的、让人悔愧的都有。但是申京淑女士的《寻找母亲》却是我看的第一部直抵人心的母爱小说。 全书以寻找前去首尔探望孩子,却被多年来一直习惯于走在前面的父亲不慎丢失的母亲开始,分别从女儿,儿子,丈夫的视角展开...
评分寻找母亲这本书并不是在寻找母亲,而是在寻找一个感情寄托的地点。作者很巧妙地运用亲情来打动我们,同时采用第二人称的写法,让她对自己的责备变成了对我们读者的责备,确实是比较高明的一种写法。 但是这篇文章采用第二人称也有问题,在另一个女人这一章中常常让人感到一头雾...
Just a pathetic, illiterate woman overwhelmed by her identity as Mom, being taken granted for sacrificing almost everything for the family yet neglected by the families. The story is not appealing to me.
评分Just a pathetic, illiterate woman overwhelmed by her identity as Mom, being taken granted for sacrificing almost everything for the family yet neglected by the families. The story is not appealing to me.
评分Just a pathetic, illiterate woman overwhelmed by her identity as Mom, being taken granted for sacrificing almost everything for the family yet neglected by the families. The story is not appealing to me.
评分这书拿奖八成是因为政治正确
评分this is a great and emotional book that's better finished in one sitting. Actually, once started, it is hard to put done. Even the book is set in Korea, it's very easy to understand and emote. Plus the translation is pretty good and the novel is not that long, it's kinda of a light read. anyway, a great book.
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