Kyung-sook Shin

El bestseller coreano que emocionó a los lectores de todo el mundo. Más de 2.500.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Ganadora del Man Asian Literary Prize. «Un hermoso, delicado y preciso testimonio de la gr

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.

Sie sind auf dem Weg, ihre erwachsenen Kinder in Seoul zu besuchen. Doch als sie mit ihrem Mann in die uberfullte U-Bahn steigen will, passiert es: Mutter geht in der Menschenmenge verloren. Und sie bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Die Suche zieht sich uber Wochen und Monate hin und wird immer aussichtsloser. Dabei wird sowohl ihren Kindern als auch ihrem Mann zum ersten Mal bewusst, was diese Frau fur sie alle war und vor allem, wer sie eigentlich war.

How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurdSet in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, Ill 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 her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief.Yoons formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.

PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, So-nyo is separated from her husband when the doors close on a packed train. As her children and husband search the streets, they recall So-nyo's life, and all they have left unsaid. Through their piercing voices, we begin to discover the desires, heartaches, and secrets she harboured within. And as the mystery of her disappearance unravels, we uncover a larger mystery, that of all mothers and children: how affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love. Compassionate, redemptive and beautifully written, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER will reconnect you to the story of your own family, and to the forgotten sacrifices that lie at its heart.

Die beeindruckende und tief bewegende Geschichte einer Familie auf der Suche nach ihrer Mutter, die eines Nachmittag mitten in den Menschenmassen der U-Bahn von Seoul spurlos verschwindet.

The long awaited first work of non fiction from the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a deliriously entertaining wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino

El bestseller coreano que emocionó a los lectores de todo el mundo. Más de 2.500.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Ganadora del Man Asian Literary Prize. «Un hermoso, delicado y preciso testimonio de la gr

La desaparici#n de una mujer en la Estaci#n Central de Se#l provoca reacciones diferentes en su marido e hijos. Su b#squeda les revelar# la verdadera importancia de la madre en sus vidas. La novela que ya ha emocionado a 2.000.000 de lectores.El mayor #xito de la literatura coreana. 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 educaci#n a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estaci#n central de Se#l cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su b#squeda desesperada se convierte en un encendido elogio de los lazos familiares lleno de emoci#n. Una novela que cautivar# a todos los lectores por su sencillez, sinceridad y la honestidad de su mensaje universal que ensalza la figura materna. "Damos por descontado que nuestras madres est#n a nuestro lado para ayudarnos de forma incondicional y que siempre estar#n ah#. Pensamos que han nacido para ser madres. Pero antes fueron ni#as y mujeres como lo somos nosotras ahora. Con este libro quer#a dar voz a todas esas mujeres."Kyung-sook Shin La cr#tica ha dicho..."Tierna, aguda y psicol#gicamente reveladora. Los

Una joven coreana ve alterada su solitaria existencia cuando en la universidad conoce a otros dos estudiantes con quienes vivirá una intensa y trágica historia de amor y amistad.«Era la primera vez

Un sentido homenaje a las madres tan crudo como emocionante. Cuando So-nyo, de sesenta y nueve años, se separa de su esposo entre la multitud en la estación de metro de Seúl, su familia comienza una