Kyung-sook Shin
Autor(a) de Please Look After Mom
About the Author
Obras por Kyung-sook Shin
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Shin, Kyung-sook
- Data de nascimento
- 1963-01-12
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- South Korea
- Local de nascimento
- Jeongeup-si, South Korea
- Locais de residência
- Seoul, South Korea
- Educação
- Seoul Institute of the Arts
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, the author of seventeen books, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed writers. Her best seller Please Look After Mom has been translated into more than thirty languages. She has been honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts.
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Críticas
Please Look After Mom (Vintage Contemporaries) por Kyung-Sook Shin
Nobody can go away from reading this book without deciding to treat his or her mother better, to listen to her when she talks, and to treasure her more.
While I enjoyed reading this, I spent quite a bit of the time thinking that I had no idea where this book was going or what it was trying to do. Thinking to myself — are the violets a metaphor? A metaphor for what? What is going on with this character? Am I just being dense, too exhausted or distracted to get it, or is this intentional?
Things mostly came together for me in the final scenes, but they didn't REALLY click until I read the author's afterword. This was a very rare case where I wish I had read the afterword first, I think I would have gotten more out of the book. (Normally I don't even read introductions.) The book is a little drifty sometimes (but of course, so is San, the main character), and San's behavior is often odd and difficult to identify with or even understand. I think the back copy set me up to expect a different kind of book than what the author was trying to deliver. (I was reading an ARC though, maybe the published version is different?)
There was a lot of loneliness here, and a few scenes that I think will really stick with me. I am definitely glad that I read it, and am more likely now to seek out other books by Shin.… (mais)
Things mostly came together for me in the final scenes, but they didn't REALLY click until I read the author's afterword. This was a very rare case where I wish I had read the afterword first, I think I would have gotten more out of the book. (Normally I don't even read introductions.) The book is a little drifty sometimes (but of course, so is San, the main character), and San's behavior is often odd and difficult to identify with or even understand. I think the back copy set me up to expect a different kind of book than what the author was trying to deliver. (I was reading an ARC though, maybe the published version is different?)
There was a lot of loneliness here, and a few scenes that I think will really stick with me. I am definitely glad that I read it, and am more likely now to seek out other books by Shin.… (mais)
A very highly regarded and very well-reviewed book that, in the end, left me pretty much unaffected. Mom goes missing and the rest of the book is about her children and her husband as they reflect on Mom even as they search for her. Nothing exceptional, to my mind, about the recollections and stories, happy moments, regrets, etc. Disappointing.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 2,163
- Popularidade
- #11,880
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 128
- ISBN
- 116
- Línguas
- 21
- Marcado como favorito
- 3