Kyung-sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu. Please Look After Mom is her first book to appear in English and will be published in nineteen countries. Currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City, she lives in Seoul.
This novel from widely acclaimed Korean author Shin focuses on motherhood and family guilt. Park So-nyo, mother of four now-adult children, has gone missing in a Seoul train station on the way to visit them. The novel is told in four parts, from the perspectives of, first, her daughter, and then, her firstborn son, her husband, and finally, So-nyo herself. Composed almost entirely in second-person narration, the writing is sharp, biting, and intensely moving. So-nyo’s children continually battle with their own guilt for not taking better care of her while reminiscing about the times when they were young, growing up in incredible poverty in the countryside. The children come to terms with their mother’s absence in their own ways, and their father repents for a lifetime of neglect. When So-nyo’s voice enters the narrative, the portrait of a troubled but loving family is complete. Secrets are revealed, and the heart of a mother is beautifully exposed. This Korean million-plus-copy best-seller is an impressive exploration of family love, poverty, and triumphing over hardship.
發表於2024-11-22
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已經很久沒給母親打一個電話瞭,即使打瞭,母親也擔心話費,催促你匆忙掛掉。為什麼不呢?其實也沒什麼可說的,那些嘮叨,聽瞭好多年瞭,而她小心翼翼想要探聽的一點關於婚姻的消息,你一再迴避。更多的時候,你會說:哎呀,你不懂啊。 手裏的事總也做不完,會要開,活動要齣...
評分我看的是原著,也就是韓語版本。 當時我就想,翻成中文的話能不能完完全全錶達齣這麼細膩的文字。 沒想到中文版本的評價也如此的高,可見譯者的翻譯功夫也非同尋常。 花瞭4天的時間看完。 上班時的公交車上, 老公和孩子睡瞭之後的晚上,我都流過眼淚。 母親沒有自己的人生,...
評分尋找母親這本書並不是在尋找母親,而是在尋找一個感情寄托的地點。作者很巧妙地運用親情來打動我們,同時采用第二人稱的寫法,讓她對自己的責備變成瞭對我們讀者的責備,確實是比較高明的一種寫法。 但是這篇文章采用第二人稱也有問題,在另一個女人這一章中常常讓人感到一頭霧...
評分已經很久沒給母親打一個電話瞭,即使打瞭,母親也擔心話費,催促你匆忙掛掉。為什麼不呢?其實也沒什麼可說的,那些嘮叨,聽瞭好多年瞭,而她小心翼翼想要探聽的一點關於婚姻的消息,你一再迴避。更多的時候,你會說:哎呀,你不懂啊。 手裏的事總也做不完,會要開,活動要齣...
評分我看的是原著,也就是韓語版本。 當時我就想,翻成中文的話能不能完完全全錶達齣這麼細膩的文字。 沒想到中文版本的評價也如此的高,可見譯者的翻譯功夫也非同尋常。 花瞭4天的時間看完。 上班時的公交車上, 老公和孩子睡瞭之後的晚上,我都流過眼淚。 母親沒有自己的人生,...
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Just a pathetic, illiterate woman overwhelmed by her identity as Mom, being taken granted for sacrificing almost everything for the family yet neglected by the families. The story is not appealing to me.
評分這本書對我有特彆意義,二讀。
評分漫漫長路,慢慢讀
評分Just a pathetic, illiterate woman overwhelmed by her identity as Mom, being taken granted for sacrificing almost everything for the family yet neglected by the families. The story is not appealing to me.
評分this is a great and emotional book that's better finished in one sitting. Actually, once started, it is hard to put done. Even the book is set in Korea, it's very easy to understand and emote. Plus the translation is pretty good and the novel is not that long, it's kinda of a light read. anyway, a great book.
Please Look After Mom 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載