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Please Look After Mom (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Shin, Kyung-Sook
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307739511
- ISBN 13
- 9780307739513
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, 2012. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, First Printing. 2012. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. Man Asian Literary Prize Finalist. Bright and clean cover with whisper of wear to lower edge, solid and square, internals in Fine Condition. A beautiful portrait of South Korea, with a story that could happen anywhere--how well do we know the hidden struggles, thoughts, wishes and dreams of those we think we know best. A 69 year-old mother is separated from her husband in a crowded Seoul subway station and her family tries desperately to find her--and this begins the questions of how well do we know the person we think we know best. 254 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2012, Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, New York, New York, USA
Synopsis
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN grew up in a remote village in South Korea, the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. Her parents were farmers who could not afford to send her to high school, so at sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school, and published her first collection of stories in 1988, at age twenty-five. She is the author of twelve previous works of fiction, and has been honoured with the 1996 Manhae Literature Prize, the 1997 Dong-in Literature Prize and the 2001 Isang Literary Prize. Beginning in August, she will be spending a year in New York as a visiting professor at Columbia University.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024117
- Title
- Please Look After Mom (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Author
- Shin, Kyung-Sook
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0307739511
- ISBN 13
- 9780307739513
- Publisher
- Vintage Contemporaries/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- SOUTH KOREA FAMILIES
- X weight
- 0 oz
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