A variety of different voices come into play, including that of a black-bellied plover who seems to represent the family's ancestral voice and leads you to suspect that mother's disappearance is really a metaphor for the greater erosion of spiritual values: "When people started to hold ancestral rites in time-share vacation homes, they worried whether the spirits would be able to find them, but now people just say 'Ancestors, I'll be back' and go to the airport. There are sightings of a disoriented figure in blue plastic sandals eating out of restaurant dustbins, yet she slips out of the narrative as obliquely as she absents herself from family portraits. It certainly taps the universal tendency to take one's mother for granted, as the children of the missing woman decide to distribute a recent photograph, then discover that none of them possesses one.
Read 5,956 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold. Book excerpt: Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy. K yung-Sook Shin's tale of an elderly woman who goes missing on the Seoul underground has hit a nerve, winning the Man Asian literary prize and selling more than 2m copies in South Korea. Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook Please Look After Mom book. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages.
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