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Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim
by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim
Laura's review
bookshelves: audio-books, contemporary-fiction, read-2011, korea
Jun 10, 11
bookshelves: audio-books, contemporary-fiction, read-2011, korea
Read from June 06 to 10, 2011
** spoiler alert **
From BBC Radio 4:
Please Look After Mother tells the story of So-nyo, an elderly wife and mother, who goes missing on Seoul station. Only with her gone, do her children and her husband begin to appreciate not only all she has done for them, but who she really was. As first her daughter, then her son and then her husband search the streets for her, we learn, too, how much they have left unsaid.
A story in part about the cultural clash between the generation who inhabit modern, urban Seoul and their parents steeped in the rural traditions of Korea, Please Look After Mother is also a universal and humbling reminder of how easy it is to take the people we love for granted.
Please Look After Mother tells the story of So-nyo, an elderly wife and mother, who goes missing on Seoul station. Only with her gone, do her children and her husband begin to appreciate not only all she has done for them, but who she really was. As first her daughter, then her son and then her husband search the streets for her, we learn, too, how much they have left unsaid.
A story in part about the cultural clash between the generation who inhabit modern, urban Seoul and their parents steeped in the rural traditions of Korea, Please Look After Mother is also a universal and humbling reminder of how easy it is to take the people we love for granted.
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Reading Progress
| 06/05/2011 | "1/7. A haunting and heartbreaking novel from Korea's best selling novelist, Kyung-Sook Shin." | |||
| 06/05/2011 | "2/7. Recalling past intimacies, Chi-hon begins to understand at last." | |||
| 06/07/2011 | "3/7. Hyong-Chol, first born and favourite son, continues to search fruitlessly for his mother." | |||
| 06/08/2011 | "4/7. Hyong-chol recognises his mother's hopes for him, and his father returns home." | |||
| 06/09/2011 | "5/7. Back in their rural home, Father remembers the early years of love and marriage." | |||
| 06/10/2011 | "6/7. Park So-nyo tells her own story at last." | |||
| 06/10/2011 | "7/7. Park So-nyo finishes her own story and her daughter Chi-hon makes a pilgrimage to Rome." |
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Jun 04, 2011 03:46pm
I was very surprised at how much I liked this one, and just how dysfunctional and traditional the family was. Talk about all sorts of inner turmoil going on!
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I read the spoiler review because I am reasonably sure I'm not going to read this book but I've been curious about it. Great review, Laura, and now I'm considering it. It does sound interesting, even though you weren't that impressed with it.
Laura wrote: "not, this BBC dramatization didn't help so much in this aspect Lisa, hope the book is better one."Well, I probably won't read it, but the premise sounds interesting.
See, I think the BBC did good on this - took away the dross and showed it up for sentimental hogwash/moralising sermon it is.:O)
Sorry you didn't enjoy it, Laura. It really struck a chord with me, for a variety of reasons. I like how Rebecca summed it up. (message 1)
LOL Laura, you have been unusually restrained in your review! Methinks maybe your 2-stars means much the same as my 1-star but you are nicer than me *grin*. I'm with Bettie on this one but I couldn't find her review to 'like' it.
Lisa wrote: "LOL Laura, you have been unusually restrained in your review! Methinks maybe your 2-stars means much the same as my 1-star but you are nicer than me *grin*. I'm with Bettie on this one but I could..."*Jumps up and down* Here it is Lisa, a tiddler, and give me yours so I can 'like' it too
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
