★★★★★
Certainly it won’t be the last time that I read something Kyung-Sook Shin wrote or any other Korean writer in general.
This story was a good start for me, since I’m reading Korean literature for the first time. I read it translated to Arabic ; أرجوك اعتنِ بأمي (المراجعة هنا)ء.
Please Look After Mom, the story of a Korean family and the loss of their mother in Seoul trains Station, how do you lose someone? a person? Is this possible? Does it really happens? Where? How? Why? why…
You’ll find yourself in a race with these pages searching and trying to find the mother, sailing and diving into the depths of the hearts, souls, and memories of this family .. How they found themselves in front of a big question .. This lost woman .. Who is she?
“Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.”
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“…I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven’t forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn’t have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn’t do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom’s dreams?”
(Source: ru2)
