I did finish the book, I had a hard time stopping once I started. Mod Louise wrote: "Rashomon effect : This. So expect discussion points and random thoughts that pop into my head as I read to start cropping up here over the course of the next few days!
I will be leading discussion this month and have already made a start. In 2015, she was involved in a plagarism scandal that saw a collection of her short stories pulled from the shelves. In 2009, the French translation of her work, A Lone Room (La Chambre Solitaire) was one of the winners of the Prix de l'Inapercu, which recognizes excellent literary works which have not yet reached a wide audience.The international rights to the million-copy bestseller Please Look After Mother were sold in 19 countries including the United States and various countries in Europe and Asia. Shin has won a wide variety of literary prizes including the Today’s Young Artist Award from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize, Hyundae Literature Award, Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literary Award, Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Oh Young-su Literature Prize. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mother.
Kyung-sook Shin (the author's preferred Romanization) is a South Korean writer. Told by the alternating voices of Mom's family, the novel pieces together, Rashomon-style, a life that appears ordinary but is anything but. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom? As they argue over the "Missing" flyers they are posting throughout the city - how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text - they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. When sixty-nine year old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt. An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harbored within.
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