Please Look After Mother

The two-million copy bestseller and winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, about a woman who disappears on a train platform, and her family's search to find her

Winner Of The Man Asian Literary Prize.

When sixty-nine-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 Mother?

Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve.'

- Guardian

'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood.'

- New York Times Book Review

'The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel' Wall Street Journal.