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Kyung-Sook Shin

Biography

Kyung-Sook Shin

Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She is the author of I'LL BE RIGHT THERE and PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Man Asian Literary Prize winner.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Books by Kyung-Sook Shin

Please Look After Mom
written by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim - Fiction

When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom?