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Please Look After Mother (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Please Look After MotherCombining a unique setting with universal themes, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is a tear-jerking, beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love
Full description- Publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Published: 14 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780297860747 ISBN 10: 0297860747
- Sales rank: 202,895
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Full description for Please Look After Mother
PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is about So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. A few years before the novel begins she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from her home village in the countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, she is separated from her husband as the doors close on a packed train. Her children and husband desperately follow every lead but fail to find So-nyo, last seen wandering into the hustle-and-bustle of Seoul station. The novel is told from four different viewpoints, following So-nyo's husband and two of her children as they lash out at each then grow closer again, each confronting their indifference to So-nyo's pain and loneliness. We also hear the ghostly voice of So-nyo, looking back at her childhood and unfulfilled ambitions, and yearning to be with her own mother - putting herself before her husband and children even if only in death.
