5/12/2023 0 Comments Please look after my mother![]() Obviously this is a book that will make you think a lot about your own family. Everyone in the family struggles with not being a good enough son/daughter/husband to Mom, and wondering whether they’ll have the chance to make it up to her. She’s been struggling with severe headaches, and it seems likely that she’s lost “mentally” as well as physically. ![]() We experience not only their sense of loss and their treasured memories, but also the conflicts that come with any close family relationship.Ī portrait of “Mom” emerges – she’s a mother with high expectations who spends her life feeding and caring for her children and husband, often at the expense of her own needs. The family’s efforts to find her are described from the perspectives of her son, her daughter and her husband. Park So-Nyo is an elderly wife and mother of five who gets separated from her husband in a crowded station and disappears. Please Look After Mom is a widely acclaimed Korean novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, which tells the story of a family who lose their mother in a Seoul subway station. ![]()
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