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First published October 24, 2008
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Kyung-Sook Shin
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* 申京淑
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'.
* Shin Kyung-sook
* ???
* 申京淑
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'.
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August 13, 2017
Powerful and unforgettable! I actually believe this book has changed me or at least opened my eyes to my own level of participation (and shortcomings) in my relationships.
This amazing story will rip you to shreds and force you to face difficult questions about your own relationships--not just with your mom but with all those people who claim a piece of your life and heart: "Who are these people who love me so much?" "Why do I take their very existence for granted?" "Do any of these people really know me?" These are hard questions, and this short book is a warning to you to ask these questions when you still have a chance to answer them! You might think you have a strong and open relationship with your mom, dad, sister, spouse, etc., but you can always do more. This story makes you realize that you should take the time to know those you love and also allow them to know you!
"All the relationships in the world are two-way, not determined by one side." ~ page 132
This amazing story will rip you to shreds and force you to face difficult questions about your own relationships--not just with your mom but with all those people who claim a piece of your life and heart: "Who are these people who love me so much?" "Why do I take their very existence for granted?" "Do any of these people really know me?" These are hard questions, and this short book is a warning to you to ask these questions when you still have a chance to answer them! You might think you have a strong and open relationship with your mom, dad, sister, spouse, etc., but you can always do more. This story makes you realize that you should take the time to know those you love and also allow them to know you!
"All the relationships in the world are two-way, not determined by one side." ~ page 132
July 17, 2023
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L’ORSO ATTRAVERS? LA MONTAGNA
Michelangelo: Pietà (S.Pietro, Vaticano)
Tutto ruota attorno alla figura di una donna di 69 anni: una contadina, vera campagnola, che si potrebbe definire forte e tenace, ma a me sembra essenzialmente ostinata e caparbia.
Il suo essere madre e moglie viene ben prima del suo essere donna: tendo a pensare che con il marito si sia congiunta solo le volte necessarie a partorire i quattro figli più il quinto morto prematuro.
? sempre stato il pilastro della sua famiglia, nella quale ha investito tutta se stessa, ha servito e accudito i suoi cari per tutta la vita.
Un giorno insieme al marito si reca a Seul per visitare i figli che lì risiedono: alla stazione della metropolitana, però, la folla li separa, l’uomo sale sul vagone, le porte si chiudono, la donna rimane a terra.
Da quel momento sparisce, e non riappare più. I figli la cercano, manifesti e annunci sul giornale, molti sostengono d’averla vista vagare, ma la donna è scomparsa e non riappare più.
Tiziano: La Pietà, 1575-1576. Venezia, Galleria dell’Accademia.
In verità ho raccontato la trama nel senso inverso a come la propone Kyung-Sook Shin: il romanzo parte con la donna che si è appena persa – tutto il resto emerge man mano.
La sua sparizione scoperchia il classico vaso di Pandora: peccato che all’interno ci sia soprattutto senso di colpa e rimorso, sigh, sentimenti che non servono granché, non aiutano ad agire, inquinano, fiaccano. Guastano persino il piacere della lettura. Possibile che siano stati tutti così ciechi da non capire che perla avevano accanto?!
E quindi, a turno, i figli, cominciando da quella che fa la scrittrice, poi il maggiore, dopo la minore che è farmacista, poi il marito, ripercorrono con la memoria tutti i ricordi che riguardano la loro madre, e moglie, scomparsa.
Oh, non so dove fermare questi ricordi, i ricordi che spuntano dappertutto come germogli di primavera. Sta ritornando tutto quello che avevo scordato.
Michelangelo: Pietà Rondanini (Castello Sforzesco, Milano). Ultima opera di Michelangelo, vi lavorò fino alla morte.
Veniamo a sapere che la donna è analfabeta e si faceva leggere ad alta voce i libri scritti dalla figlia. Che prestava volontariato per un’associazione al servizio di anziani. Eccetera.
La vera chicca appare nell’ultima parte, quel capitolo in cui è la donna scomparsa a parlare in prima persona: aveva un’amicizia maschile tenuta nascosta, un uomo che era l’unico a capirla e apprezzarla, amico, mai amante. Così lo descrive la donna: Eri il mio peccato, e la mia felicità.
Una cosa bella, preziosa, che secondo me rende la donna meno appiattita nel suo servilismo familiare.
Un aspetto importante del romanzo è il perché (molto probabilmente) la madre scompare, si perde nella folla, e poi nella metropoli. Da tempo soffriva di mal di testa, afflitta da stati confusionali, e, ovviamente, testarda e caparbia com’è, ha sottovalutato il problema, si è rifiutata di farsi visitare. Si tratta presumibilmente di Alzheimer, quella malattia che è diventata tratto caratteristico del nostro invecchiare: viviamo ormai troppo a lungo, oppure è un morbo che è sempre esistito e solo adesso sappiamo riconoscerlo, o ancora, è conseguenza del nostro tempo, del nostro stile di vita?
Ecco perché ho menzionato nel titolo quel magnifico racconto di Alice Munro su una donna afflitta dall’Alzheimer che ha generato un bel film dell’attrice-regista canadese Sarah Polley, Lontano da lei, con Julie Christie e Gordon Pinsent.
El Greco: Pietà, 1571-1576. Filadelfia, Museum of Art.
Questo romanzo ha qualche problema, per questo non riesco a esserne entusiasta. Kyung-Sook Shin racconta in prima persona singolare (la madre), in terza (il figlio maggiore) e in seconda (le due figlie e il marito). Il tu predomina, ma è un tu che genera problemi.
Il tu si usa soprattutto in pubblicità, capita di trovarlo nei videogame, nei librogame e nei giochi di ruolo. ? meno frequente in letteratura, dove si adopera più che altro nei titoli (“Non ti muovere”, “Piangi pure”, “Stringimi prima che arrivi la notte”, “Non volare via”, “Chiedi alla strada” “Va dove ti porta il cuore”). Nella narrativa lo si adotta essenzialmente per coinvolgere di più il lettore, per sfondare la parete-libro, per accorciare le distanze, quel tu dovrei essere io, dovremmo essere tutti noi lettori, dovrebbe farci diventare protagonisti.
[Curiosità: su Facebook esiste, ma credo che non ci sia più, un gruppo chiamato “Scrittori che danno del tu”].
Bene, tutto questo però in “Prenditi cura di lei” secondo me non succede.
Vincent van Gogh
Non succede per diverse ragioni.
Un po’ per via della distanza culturale (riti religiosi insoliti, abitudini distanti da noi come per esempio non chiamarsi per nome di battesimo ma ‘fratello’ o ‘sorella’).
Un po’ perché la scrittura di Kyung-Sook Shin si frantuma e spezza nei ricordi dei vari personaggi, che procedono erratici, vagabondi, disarticolati, senza un filo, secondo un disegno che ci mette del tempo a emergere, rivela più che raccontare.
Un po’ perché la scrittura-ricordo procede a un ritmo dolce, ma anche lento.
Un po’ perché si parla molto di cibo, ma mancano le spezie: il cibo e tutto quanto sembrano immersi nel grigio, la mestizia avvolge ogni cosa, è il tono che domina.
Poi, alla fine, la figlia scrittrice viene in visita a Roma, al Vaticano, e da quella strana religione coreana si passa a quella strana religione cattolica (sì, proprio quella dove ci sono madri che partoriscono senza uomini, donne che rimangono vergini anche dopo aver partorito uno o più di uno, dipende dalle interpretazioni, uno che è uno ma anche trino, padri che fanno torturare e uccidere il figlio per massimo gesto d’amore…), e a quel punto è chiaro che è tardi per prendersi cura di lei, visto che lei è proprio scomparsa, e mai più riapparsa, e visto che lei è quella che si è presa cura di tutti.
Come una Pietà michelangiolesca.
Michele Tripisciano: Pietà (gesso), 1913. Museo Tripisciano di Palazzo Moncada, Caltanissetta.
Sai cosa succede a tutte le cose che abbiamo fatto insieme nel passato?...Vuol dire che tutte le cose successe in passato sono in realtà nel presente, che le cose vecchie si mischiano con quelle di adesso, e quelle di adesso con quelle del futuro, e quelle del futuro sono mischiate a quelle del passato, solo che non ce ne accorgiamo…Non pensi che le cose che succedono ora siano collegate a quelle del passato e a quelle del futuro, solo che noi non ce ne accorgiamo?
Michelangelo: Pietà Bandini (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Firenze)
Michelangelo: Pietà (S.Pietro, Vaticano)
Tutto ruota attorno alla figura di una donna di 69 anni: una contadina, vera campagnola, che si potrebbe definire forte e tenace, ma a me sembra essenzialmente ostinata e caparbia.
Il suo essere madre e moglie viene ben prima del suo essere donna: tendo a pensare che con il marito si sia congiunta solo le volte necessarie a partorire i quattro figli più il quinto morto prematuro.
? sempre stato il pilastro della sua famiglia, nella quale ha investito tutta se stessa, ha servito e accudito i suoi cari per tutta la vita.
Un giorno insieme al marito si reca a Seul per visitare i figli che lì risiedono: alla stazione della metropolitana, però, la folla li separa, l’uomo sale sul vagone, le porte si chiudono, la donna rimane a terra.
Da quel momento sparisce, e non riappare più. I figli la cercano, manifesti e annunci sul giornale, molti sostengono d’averla vista vagare, ma la donna è scomparsa e non riappare più.
Tiziano: La Pietà, 1575-1576. Venezia, Galleria dell’Accademia.
In verità ho raccontato la trama nel senso inverso a come la propone Kyung-Sook Shin: il romanzo parte con la donna che si è appena persa – tutto il resto emerge man mano.
La sua sparizione scoperchia il classico vaso di Pandora: peccato che all’interno ci sia soprattutto senso di colpa e rimorso, sigh, sentimenti che non servono granché, non aiutano ad agire, inquinano, fiaccano. Guastano persino il piacere della lettura. Possibile che siano stati tutti così ciechi da non capire che perla avevano accanto?!
E quindi, a turno, i figli, cominciando da quella che fa la scrittrice, poi il maggiore, dopo la minore che è farmacista, poi il marito, ripercorrono con la memoria tutti i ricordi che riguardano la loro madre, e moglie, scomparsa.
Oh, non so dove fermare questi ricordi, i ricordi che spuntano dappertutto come germogli di primavera. Sta ritornando tutto quello che avevo scordato.
Michelangelo: Pietà Rondanini (Castello Sforzesco, Milano). Ultima opera di Michelangelo, vi lavorò fino alla morte.
Veniamo a sapere che la donna è analfabeta e si faceva leggere ad alta voce i libri scritti dalla figlia. Che prestava volontariato per un’associazione al servizio di anziani. Eccetera.
La vera chicca appare nell’ultima parte, quel capitolo in cui è la donna scomparsa a parlare in prima persona: aveva un’amicizia maschile tenuta nascosta, un uomo che era l’unico a capirla e apprezzarla, amico, mai amante. Così lo descrive la donna: Eri il mio peccato, e la mia felicità.
Una cosa bella, preziosa, che secondo me rende la donna meno appiattita nel suo servilismo familiare.
Un aspetto importante del romanzo è il perché (molto probabilmente) la madre scompare, si perde nella folla, e poi nella metropoli. Da tempo soffriva di mal di testa, afflitta da stati confusionali, e, ovviamente, testarda e caparbia com’è, ha sottovalutato il problema, si è rifiutata di farsi visitare. Si tratta presumibilmente di Alzheimer, quella malattia che è diventata tratto caratteristico del nostro invecchiare: viviamo ormai troppo a lungo, oppure è un morbo che è sempre esistito e solo adesso sappiamo riconoscerlo, o ancora, è conseguenza del nostro tempo, del nostro stile di vita?
Ecco perché ho menzionato nel titolo quel magnifico racconto di Alice Munro su una donna afflitta dall’Alzheimer che ha generato un bel film dell’attrice-regista canadese Sarah Polley, Lontano da lei, con Julie Christie e Gordon Pinsent.
El Greco: Pietà, 1571-1576. Filadelfia, Museum of Art.
Questo romanzo ha qualche problema, per questo non riesco a esserne entusiasta. Kyung-Sook Shin racconta in prima persona singolare (la madre), in terza (il figlio maggiore) e in seconda (le due figlie e il marito). Il tu predomina, ma è un tu che genera problemi.
Il tu si usa soprattutto in pubblicità, capita di trovarlo nei videogame, nei librogame e nei giochi di ruolo. ? meno frequente in letteratura, dove si adopera più che altro nei titoli (“Non ti muovere”, “Piangi pure”, “Stringimi prima che arrivi la notte”, “Non volare via”, “Chiedi alla strada” “Va dove ti porta il cuore”). Nella narrativa lo si adotta essenzialmente per coinvolgere di più il lettore, per sfondare la parete-libro, per accorciare le distanze, quel tu dovrei essere io, dovremmo essere tutti noi lettori, dovrebbe farci diventare protagonisti.
[Curiosità: su Facebook esiste, ma credo che non ci sia più, un gruppo chiamato “Scrittori che danno del tu”].
Bene, tutto questo però in “Prenditi cura di lei” secondo me non succede.
Vincent van Gogh
Non succede per diverse ragioni.
Un po’ per via della distanza culturale (riti religiosi insoliti, abitudini distanti da noi come per esempio non chiamarsi per nome di battesimo ma ‘fratello’ o ‘sorella’).
Un po’ perché la scrittura di Kyung-Sook Shin si frantuma e spezza nei ricordi dei vari personaggi, che procedono erratici, vagabondi, disarticolati, senza un filo, secondo un disegno che ci mette del tempo a emergere, rivela più che raccontare.
Un po’ perché la scrittura-ricordo procede a un ritmo dolce, ma anche lento.
Un po’ perché si parla molto di cibo, ma mancano le spezie: il cibo e tutto quanto sembrano immersi nel grigio, la mestizia avvolge ogni cosa, è il tono che domina.
Poi, alla fine, la figlia scrittrice viene in visita a Roma, al Vaticano, e da quella strana religione coreana si passa a quella strana religione cattolica (sì, proprio quella dove ci sono madri che partoriscono senza uomini, donne che rimangono vergini anche dopo aver partorito uno o più di uno, dipende dalle interpretazioni, uno che è uno ma anche trino, padri che fanno torturare e uccidere il figlio per massimo gesto d’amore…), e a quel punto è chiaro che è tardi per prendersi cura di lei, visto che lei è proprio scomparsa, e mai più riapparsa, e visto che lei è quella che si è presa cura di tutti.
Come una Pietà michelangiolesca.
Michele Tripisciano: Pietà (gesso), 1913. Museo Tripisciano di Palazzo Moncada, Caltanissetta.
Sai cosa succede a tutte le cose che abbiamo fatto insieme nel passato?...Vuol dire che tutte le cose successe in passato sono in realtà nel presente, che le cose vecchie si mischiano con quelle di adesso, e quelle di adesso con quelle del futuro, e quelle del futuro sono mischiate a quelle del passato, solo che non ce ne accorgiamo…Non pensi che le cose che succedono ora siano collegate a quelle del passato e a quelle del futuro, solo che noi non ce ne accorgiamo?
Michelangelo: Pietà Bandini (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Firenze)
December 4, 2013
Wow, that was bizarre and bad. What starts out as an interesting family novel turns into an extended hagiography of "Mom", a woman so amazingly selfless and nurturing that puppies, ducklings, fields and orphans spring into worshipful life around her -- only her callous children and faithless husband don't see the value of this woman, who secretly feeds the poor, delivers the baby of a man who stole from her, sleeps in the cold, and donates her old-age mite to orphans. She is so selfless that -- despite being plagued (literally) by a host of illnesses from mysterious stomach trouble to cancer to (apparently) Alzheimer's -- she never even agrees to take medicine or go to the hospital. She is Super-Mom, the epitome of "never mind, I'll just sit in the dark", and so annoyingly perfect and cloyingly abject that if she were your Mom, you'd be speaking as sharply to her as her children and husband do. But never fear, in Shin's world, these children will rue for eternity those sharp words. Even the perfect 2nd daughter is racked by endless guilt and wants to stick her head in a dirt hole b/c she failed to plant a persimmon tree in the spot that Mom told her to (really).
Speaking of the 2nd daughter, one of the most gratingly retrograde and black/white aspects of this book is that the only person in the family who is kind to Mom (so kind she buys her a mink coat with her first paycheck!) is the 2nd daughter, a stay-at-home Mom to 3 children, so selfless in her own right that she wears mis-matched socks and collapses in motherly exhaustion. This book does not deal in nuance! By contrast, the careerist, not-married, older daughter is -- you guessed it -- mean to Mom, and Dad!, drinks too much, and therefore is to blame for most things in the world.
A final complaint -- and in a book so thematically irksome, this is really trivia -- the family structure and timeline do not hold together. There are supposedly 5 children, but the two younger sons are almost invisible and the repeated depictions of family life when the protganists are children never involve the younger children. The eldest son is said to be over 50, yet the eldest daughter (the middle child of the 5) is said to be in her thirties -- this could work, except that they are repeatedly described as being young children together. Similarly, the elder and younger daughter are apparently close in age, but the childhood scenes never involve any interaction between the sisters. When the three oldest have moved to Seoul, Mom is described as having nothing to live for back in the countryside, which is odd as presumably she had two young children back at home. This just seems sloppy in the extreme.
So why two stars and not just one? Well, I did enjoy learning a bit about life in the Korean countryside. Especially the loving descriptions of meals -- I always enjoy those.
Speaking of the 2nd daughter, one of the most gratingly retrograde and black/white aspects of this book is that the only person in the family who is kind to Mom (so kind she buys her a mink coat with her first paycheck!) is the 2nd daughter, a stay-at-home Mom to 3 children, so selfless in her own right that she wears mis-matched socks and collapses in motherly exhaustion. This book does not deal in nuance! By contrast, the careerist, not-married, older daughter is -- you guessed it -- mean to Mom, and Dad!, drinks too much, and therefore is to blame for most things in the world.
A final complaint -- and in a book so thematically irksome, this is really trivia -- the family structure and timeline do not hold together. There are supposedly 5 children, but the two younger sons are almost invisible and the repeated depictions of family life when the protganists are children never involve the younger children. The eldest son is said to be over 50, yet the eldest daughter (the middle child of the 5) is said to be in her thirties -- this could work, except that they are repeatedly described as being young children together. Similarly, the elder and younger daughter are apparently close in age, but the childhood scenes never involve any interaction between the sisters. When the three oldest have moved to Seoul, Mom is described as having nothing to live for back in the countryside, which is odd as presumably she had two young children back at home. This just seems sloppy in the extreme.
So why two stars and not just one? Well, I did enjoy learning a bit about life in the Korean countryside. Especially the loving descriptions of meals -- I always enjoy those.
March 9, 2025
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March 25, 2021
Bit sweet and repetitive but an interesting dive into post-war Korean society and the heavy burden placed on women
’I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to school. How could you only do what you like? There are things you have to do whether you like it or not.' Mom's expression asked, What kind of question is that? And then she murmured, 'If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?”
The abject poverty and harsh life after the war and under the military junta (with a curfew just mentioned in an offhand manner) is the core subject of this book. The mother is lost in Seoul station and the children and her husband reflect on how little they actually know who Mom actually is. She is the core of the family, taking care of everyone in a selfless manner. An ironclad work ethic and zealous devotion to the education of her children reminded me of my own (grand)parents and the you perspective adds to the recognition one feels while reading.
Food, with shortages as root cause, takes a prominent role as well. Sometimes I felt the saintliness of mom was being taken a bit too far, and the regret of the ones around her a bit sweet and overtly convenient. But how well do we in general know our loved ones and how much time do we really spend on those who we tend to take for granted?
Chapter 4 starts of very confusing in my opinion
Who is the narrator and who is the you?
And the epilogue is rather unnecessary to drive the already clear message of the book home. Still an interesting enough read to gain a better understanding of the harsh post-war conditions in Korea.
’I don't like or dislike the kitchen. I cooked because I had to. I had to stay in the kitchen so you could all eat and go to school. How could you only do what you like? There are things you have to do whether you like it or not.' Mom's expression asked, What kind of question is that? And then she murmured, 'If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?”
The abject poverty and harsh life after the war and under the military junta (with a curfew just mentioned in an offhand manner) is the core subject of this book. The mother is lost in Seoul station and the children and her husband reflect on how little they actually know who Mom actually is. She is the core of the family, taking care of everyone in a selfless manner. An ironclad work ethic and zealous devotion to the education of her children reminded me of my own (grand)parents and the you perspective adds to the recognition one feels while reading.
Food, with shortages as root cause, takes a prominent role as well. Sometimes I felt the saintliness of mom was being taken a bit too far, and the regret of the ones around her a bit sweet and overtly convenient. But how well do we in general know our loved ones and how much time do we really spend on those who we tend to take for granted?
Chapter 4 starts of very confusing in my opinion
Who is the narrator and who is the you?
And the epilogue is rather unnecessary to drive the already clear message of the book home. Still an interesting enough read to gain a better understanding of the harsh post-war conditions in Korea.
October 12, 2011
This is not the sort of book I read, and I’d be lying if I said the Korean name on the cover didn’t play a part in getting me to crack the spine; I tend to give passes to stories I think are lame when they come from Asian countries, it’s just where my own cultural preferences lie. Even still the story, about a family dealing with the disappearance of their mother in a Seoul subway station, would normally have been a little too ‘old lady book club’ for me. But one detail of the plot, a minor point highlighted on the jacket description, pulled me in: as the family gathers to make missing person flyers to distribute, the missing mother’s children realize they have no recent photos of her. How heartbreaking is that?
So that little detail got me in the door, since so much of my own [never finished] creative work is concerned with our inability to ever really know another person, and whether that deficiency is really a deficiency at all, or instead an impossible standard we’ve all been convinced to aspire to? PLAM deals with these concerns by the shovelful, as the other family members look back on their relationship with their mother/wife, re-examining shared moments under the colored light cast by her absence.
Shin’s big gamble with the book is her narrative technique, primarily telling the story through second-person voice [when your mother disappeared, you stood outside the station and handed out flyers with your brother and his wife]. It’s a risky move, creative writing teachers usually brandish flaming swords to discourage students from using due to the difficulty in maintaining consistency, but Shin keeps it engaging about 75 per cent of the time.
But 75 per cent is not 100 per cent [I rock math!] and unfortunately the book suffers from its shifting perspectives. Similar to Egan’s ‘Visit From the Goon Squad,’ the problem with the shifting voices is if you like one narrator, you might not ever hear them again. This isn’t as much of a deficiency in PLAM as in ‘Goon Squad,’ only because none of the narrators are that exceptional: I probably preferred the writer daughter to the oldest son, but neither of them are exactly vivd or colorful, a fact I might attribute to the somewhat flat prose of Asian authors when translated to English.
PLAM isn’t a bad book, by any means, but I think it might have more to say about the mother/daughter relationship than the mother/son. Ultimately, it’s a book about the moment when children start to see their parents as individuals, something other than ‘Mom’ or ‘Dad.’ It’s a story worth telling, but I think it would have resonated better with me in a story written by an native English speaker. There were many times, moments related to Korean holidays or family memorial altars, where the significance just whooshed past my head, and despite it’s book club-friendly subject matter, I can see it being a hard sell to those members of my clientele. The prose lacks the florid prose that typically fills such books. And that’s a shame, since I think there’s a lot that crowd could get out of it, but they’re a stubborn bunch in my experience.
All in all, the book’s a fine introduction to a new voice from a place we don’t hear very much from in North America, and the push the book seems to be getting would suggest Kyung-Sook Shin is an author we’ll be hearing from for a few more books yet.
So that little detail got me in the door, since so much of my own [never finished] creative work is concerned with our inability to ever really know another person, and whether that deficiency is really a deficiency at all, or instead an impossible standard we’ve all been convinced to aspire to? PLAM deals with these concerns by the shovelful, as the other family members look back on their relationship with their mother/wife, re-examining shared moments under the colored light cast by her absence.
Shin’s big gamble with the book is her narrative technique, primarily telling the story through second-person voice [when your mother disappeared, you stood outside the station and handed out flyers with your brother and his wife]. It’s a risky move, creative writing teachers usually brandish flaming swords to discourage students from using due to the difficulty in maintaining consistency, but Shin keeps it engaging about 75 per cent of the time.
But 75 per cent is not 100 per cent [I rock math!] and unfortunately the book suffers from its shifting perspectives. Similar to Egan’s ‘Visit From the Goon Squad,’ the problem with the shifting voices is if you like one narrator, you might not ever hear them again. This isn’t as much of a deficiency in PLAM as in ‘Goon Squad,’ only because none of the narrators are that exceptional: I probably preferred the writer daughter to the oldest son, but neither of them are exactly vivd or colorful, a fact I might attribute to the somewhat flat prose of Asian authors when translated to English.
PLAM isn’t a bad book, by any means, but I think it might have more to say about the mother/daughter relationship than the mother/son. Ultimately, it’s a book about the moment when children start to see their parents as individuals, something other than ‘Mom’ or ‘Dad.’ It’s a story worth telling, but I think it would have resonated better with me in a story written by an native English speaker. There were many times, moments related to Korean holidays or family memorial altars, where the significance just whooshed past my head, and despite it’s book club-friendly subject matter, I can see it being a hard sell to those members of my clientele. The prose lacks the florid prose that typically fills such books. And that’s a shame, since I think there’s a lot that crowd could get out of it, but they’re a stubborn bunch in my experience.
All in all, the book’s a fine introduction to a new voice from a place we don’t hear very much from in North America, and the push the book seems to be getting would suggest Kyung-Sook Shin is an author we’ll be hearing from for a few more books yet.
April 29, 2018
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M?t cu?n truy?n ???c gi?i thi?u b?i m?t anh làm xu?t b?n mà mình qu?. Và m?i ??c ?? th?y thích r?i. Truy?n c? nh? nói h? lòng mình ?y. Nh?ng m?u thu?n, c?i nhau vì bao nhiêu chuy?n v?t v?nh gi?a m? và con gái, nh?ng tình c?m ?n s?u kh?ng d? l? thành l?i, cái yêu th??ng k? l? gi?a nh?ng ng??i trong gia ?ình, m?i th? ???c m? t? s?ng ??ng và c? th?, c? nh? hi?n hi?n tr??c m?t ng??i ta v?y. ??c và ch?y n??c m?t, và nh? t?i má, nh? da di?t, và th?y mình là m?t ??a con có l?i bi?t bao. Có l? ai ??c quy?n này c?ng th?p thoáng th?y bóng dáng c?a mình và m? mình trong ?ó.
Nói nh? v?y ?? th?y r?ng ng??i vi?t r?t có tài, k? thu?t vi?t r?t t?t, ch?t l?c ch?t li?u t?ng chút t?ng chút m?t, nh?ng chi ti?t nh? xíu mà g?i lên bao nhiêu ?i?u kh?ng nói, và nh?ng chi ti?t ch?n th?c ??n n?i nh? là ng??i vi?t ?? ?i vào trí nh? c?a ng??i ??c mà l?i ra nh?ng m?u k? ?c tu?i th? v?y, c? nh? ??c l?i nh?t k? c?a b?n th?n mình, khi?n h? kh?ng kh?i gi?t mình nh? l?i nh?ng ngày x?a c?, mình c?ng ?? t?ng làm th?, nói th? v?i m? mình.
M?t quy?n truy?n v? tình c?m gia ?ình, nh?ng kh?ng ch? gói g?n trong ?ó. ?i?u có l? khi?n quy?n sách này ???c ?ón nh?n n?ng nhi?t ??n v?y là t? c?u chuy?n c?a m?t bà m? nó vi?t v? c?u chuy?n c?a hàng tri?u ng??i m?, c?u chuy?n c?a m?t ng??i ph? n? tr? thành c?u chuy?n v? th?n ph?ncon ng??i, c?u chuy?n c?a m?t gia ?ình cho th?y b?i c?nh x? h?i trong c? m?t th?i k?, v?i nh?ng giá tr? l?n l??t b? thay th? và ?ánh ??i, v?i nh?ng c?u h?i v? cu?c s?ng và m?i quan h? gi?a ng??i v?i ng??i.
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July 3, 2022
Namjoon doing the Lord's work by recommending good books
January 20, 2016
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March 24, 2011
Those who have traveled in Southeast Asia – and Korea in particular -- will know right away that the number 4 (pinyin sì) is considered unlucky because it sounds like “death” (pinyin sǐ). Why, then, did Korean author Kyung-sook Shin carefully craft a novel from four different viewpoints?
The answer is that the members of this family are unlucky, or at the very least, careless. Through years as a family, none of them ever really knew Mom or understood the sources of her strength. And now she has disappeared in a crowded Seoul subway station, where she and her husband of 50 years were about to board a train. Her disappearance devastates those who are left behind.
The story is told from four alternating points of view: Chi-hon, the oldest daughter and a successful novelist, Hyung-chol, the oldest son who is wracked with guilt for not living up to his potential, her husband who inevitably disappointed Mom through his selfishness and adultery, and last of all, Mom. Little by little, a fuller image of Mom emerges, although we, the readers, never really get to know all the facets of Mom either.
Chi-hon reflects, “Either a mother and daughter know each other very well, or they are strangers…You realized you’d become a stranger as you watched Mom try to conceal her messy everyday life.” As Chi-hon strives to sort out who her Mom really was, she realizes that, “…because of one thing or another you would push calling her to the end of your list.” Mom had become superfluous in her busy life, a solid presence who was always a little bit of an enigma.
Hyung-chol was the favored son who was both idolized and pressured. In the end though, he could not live up to Mom’s aspirations and dreams for him. “Mom’s disappearance was triggering events in his memory moments, like the maple-leaf doors, he thought he’d forgotten about.”
The two adult children – and their father – realize, too late, that Mom was an integral part of existence. Father thinks, “When she planted seedlings of eggplant, purple eggplants hung everywhere throughout the summer and into the fall. Anything she touched grew in bounty.” Still, he selfishly ignores her intense headaches and the heartbreaks that Mom is forced to undergo alone.
When we get to Mom’s story, we learn some of the background – her arranged marriage, for instance, and a few of the secrets she keeps. But it’s left to Chi-hon to recognize the truth in a letter from her younger sister, “Do you remember asking me a little while ago to tell you something I knew about Mom? All I knew was that Mom’s missing. It’s the same now. I especially don’t know where her strength came from. Think about it. Mom did things that one person couldn’t do by herself. I think that’s why she became emptier and emptier.”
Please Look After Mom is a novel that’s distinctly Korean –ancestral-rite tables, the Full Moon Harvest, plum juice and steamed skate – but is also very universal. Every view is explored – Chi-hon and Father’s stories are in second person, Hyung-chol’s is in third person and Mom’s is in first person. And, while the second person tense can become a little cumbersome, the writing is still direct, moving, and graceful.
It’s worth noting that Kyung-sook Shin is already a prominent novelist in Korea; the book sold nearly one and a half million copies in South Korea. Translated expertly by Chi-Young Kim, the book is certain to make readers appreciate the hardworking, uncomplaining women who go by the simple endearment “Mom.”
The answer is that the members of this family are unlucky, or at the very least, careless. Through years as a family, none of them ever really knew Mom or understood the sources of her strength. And now she has disappeared in a crowded Seoul subway station, where she and her husband of 50 years were about to board a train. Her disappearance devastates those who are left behind.
The story is told from four alternating points of view: Chi-hon, the oldest daughter and a successful novelist, Hyung-chol, the oldest son who is wracked with guilt for not living up to his potential, her husband who inevitably disappointed Mom through his selfishness and adultery, and last of all, Mom. Little by little, a fuller image of Mom emerges, although we, the readers, never really get to know all the facets of Mom either.
Chi-hon reflects, “Either a mother and daughter know each other very well, or they are strangers…You realized you’d become a stranger as you watched Mom try to conceal her messy everyday life.” As Chi-hon strives to sort out who her Mom really was, she realizes that, “…because of one thing or another you would push calling her to the end of your list.” Mom had become superfluous in her busy life, a solid presence who was always a little bit of an enigma.
Hyung-chol was the favored son who was both idolized and pressured. In the end though, he could not live up to Mom’s aspirations and dreams for him. “Mom’s disappearance was triggering events in his memory moments, like the maple-leaf doors, he thought he’d forgotten about.”
The two adult children – and their father – realize, too late, that Mom was an integral part of existence. Father thinks, “When she planted seedlings of eggplant, purple eggplants hung everywhere throughout the summer and into the fall. Anything she touched grew in bounty.” Still, he selfishly ignores her intense headaches and the heartbreaks that Mom is forced to undergo alone.
When we get to Mom’s story, we learn some of the background – her arranged marriage, for instance, and a few of the secrets she keeps. But it’s left to Chi-hon to recognize the truth in a letter from her younger sister, “Do you remember asking me a little while ago to tell you something I knew about Mom? All I knew was that Mom’s missing. It’s the same now. I especially don’t know where her strength came from. Think about it. Mom did things that one person couldn’t do by herself. I think that’s why she became emptier and emptier.”
Please Look After Mom is a novel that’s distinctly Korean –ancestral-rite tables, the Full Moon Harvest, plum juice and steamed skate – but is also very universal. Every view is explored – Chi-hon and Father’s stories are in second person, Hyung-chol’s is in third person and Mom’s is in first person. And, while the second person tense can become a little cumbersome, the writing is still direct, moving, and graceful.
It’s worth noting that Kyung-sook Shin is already a prominent novelist in Korea; the book sold nearly one and a half million copies in South Korea. Translated expertly by Chi-Young Kim, the book is certain to make readers appreciate the hardworking, uncomplaining women who go by the simple endearment “Mom.”
May 7, 2024
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July 7, 2016
Wow....wait, I need to capitalize this: WOW...This story took me through an emotional roller coaster that reminded me of all my personal shortcomings in the relationship department with my own family and my Mom. The last time I was this wrecked was when my father passed away of cancer 2 years ago.
The story begins when the 70-year old mother of a family disappears from a Seoul train station. The family, 5 grown children and her husband, is desperate to find her and yet, on the other hand, are blaming themselves and each other for not spending more time or paying more attention to her. The book is divided into 4 major sections with 4 narrative voices: the oldest daughter, the oldest son, the husband and the mom herself, with a shorter epilogue again narrated by the oldest daughter. A second person narration is heavily used in the book..in all except for the personal narration of Mom. It takes a little getting used to but then ultimately one would start to identify with the voice:
"You were the one who always hung up first. You would say, "Mom, I'll call you back," and then you didn't. You didn't have time to sit and listen to everything your Mom had to say..."
"Mom was the kitchen and the kitchen was Mom. You never wondered, did Mom like being in the kitchen?"
As the story unfolds with each person's narration, we understand a little more about Mom, her love for all, her everyday life, her relationship with each of her children, her relationship with her husband and her husband's demanding older sister. We come to know that her children and her husband know very little of her, except that she was always there for them, taking care of them. When Mom's voice starts narrating at the end, we get the complete picture, almost...
It's no coincidence that the Korean word for "death" is a homonym for the number 4 (same in Chinese). This is a very sad story to read, yet I can't stop reading, especially toward the end. The translation is great, leaving Shin's original writing style unchanged. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves his/her Mom.
The story begins when the 70-year old mother of a family disappears from a Seoul train station. The family, 5 grown children and her husband, is desperate to find her and yet, on the other hand, are blaming themselves and each other for not spending more time or paying more attention to her. The book is divided into 4 major sections with 4 narrative voices: the oldest daughter, the oldest son, the husband and the mom herself, with a shorter epilogue again narrated by the oldest daughter. A second person narration is heavily used in the book..in all except for the personal narration of Mom. It takes a little getting used to but then ultimately one would start to identify with the voice:
"You were the one who always hung up first. You would say, "Mom, I'll call you back," and then you didn't. You didn't have time to sit and listen to everything your Mom had to say..."
"Mom was the kitchen and the kitchen was Mom. You never wondered, did Mom like being in the kitchen?"
As the story unfolds with each person's narration, we understand a little more about Mom, her love for all, her everyday life, her relationship with each of her children, her relationship with her husband and her husband's demanding older sister. We come to know that her children and her husband know very little of her, except that she was always there for them, taking care of them. When Mom's voice starts narrating at the end, we get the complete picture, almost...
It's no coincidence that the Korean word for "death" is a homonym for the number 4 (same in Chinese). This is a very sad story to read, yet I can't stop reading, especially toward the end. The translation is great, leaving Shin's original writing style unchanged. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves his/her Mom.
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tháng 9/2020: d?o này mình ?i xe ??p nhi?u nên có thói quen nghe sách nói trên ???ng, lúc nghe cu?n này ??p xe trên ???ng mà n??c m?t mình c? ch?y ra l?ng l?, mình ?m th?m khóc gi?a bi?n ng??i mà c?m giác th?t b?t l?c, b?i gì mình v?n ch?a ch?m sóc m? ??, và ??n t?ng tu?i này r?i mà v?n c? làm m? lo l?ng m?i mà m?i l?n g?p m?, m? l?i khóc vì th?y mình sao c? ??n quá, mình c? v? v? xoa d?u m? hoài. Nh?ng mà bi?t làm sao ???c, b?n n?ng c?a ng??i m? lúc nào c?ng xem con mình nh? bé c?n ph?i ???c ch?m sóc ch? ??u có bao gi? ngh? ng??c l?i r?ng con mình ?? l?n và m? x?ng ?áng ???c ch?m sóc ??u, nhi?u lúc th?y m?y bà m? (trong ?ó có m? mình) toàn là siêu nh?n.
May 28, 2019
**spoiler towards the end!
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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?— Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
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Kyung Sook Shin’s “Please Look After Mom,” winner of The Man Asian Literary Prize was a deeply affecting, tear-jerker read. I cried so hard reading this book, I do not recommend you read it in public and make sure you have a box of tissue handy. Simple in prose, it wasn’t necessary that the writing in itself was good, but what the book was about that made the novel good. Although set in South Korea, this book will undoubtedly resonate with many people because of its universal theme — family, motherhood, love & loss, tradition, and familial obligations & duties. I think that is why the novel did so well worldwide.
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This novel brought back of some of my fondest childhood memories of growing up in a rural countryside in Korea. It’s so hard to believe that I used to live exactly like the rural life described in the book. I kept thinking of my parents, especially my mom as I read the novel. I briefly mentioned about my parents in another review, but both of my parents had rough childhoods. Especially my dad who has been on his own since 9, working at various temples to have a place to stay doing all kinds of odd errands & jobs. Then they got married & had twins at a young age and have been just working to have the ends meet, eventually bringing our family to America. They never really had the opportunities to pursue their dreams or go to school, they had to work & raise a young family. I love my parents and forever grateful & indebted for their love, sacrifices, and support. I could not imagine my life without my parents and hope they live a long, healthy life. I hope that I can be a good daughter to them and make up for all the troubles I caused, but that’s for another time, lol...
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simple in prose & bit slow burner, but deeply affecting & poignant and well-observed family dynamic & Korean culture, the novel is told in 2nd person narrative by four voices — daughter, son, father, and mother, after Sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo (mother) got separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station. They were on their way to visit their children from the countryside, and told the kids they’ll find their way to the eldest son’s house on their own because none of them could meet them at the station. What follows is each character’s heartbreaking confession, guilt, misinterpretation, miscommunication, and frustration — not picking up their parents at the station, reflecting back on the sacrifices the mom/wife made for the family, not being a better daughter/son/husband, not acting on what mom asked or not to do, and ultimately, not knowing who mom really was.
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We don’t get to find out where mom is at the end, that broke me, and left me bit frustrated. But I have a bunch based on mom’s confession. I think author left that part out on purpose because it’s the stories that are the focus of the book. Oh my goodness, the dad’s section really tore me up! And mom’s secret, oh my god, heartbreaking! Highly recommend this hauntingly beautiful, yet sad, moving novel. ????
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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?— Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
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Kyung Sook Shin’s “Please Look After Mom,” winner of The Man Asian Literary Prize was a deeply affecting, tear-jerker read. I cried so hard reading this book, I do not recommend you read it in public and make sure you have a box of tissue handy. Simple in prose, it wasn’t necessary that the writing in itself was good, but what the book was about that made the novel good. Although set in South Korea, this book will undoubtedly resonate with many people because of its universal theme — family, motherhood, love & loss, tradition, and familial obligations & duties. I think that is why the novel did so well worldwide.
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This novel brought back of some of my fondest childhood memories of growing up in a rural countryside in Korea. It’s so hard to believe that I used to live exactly like the rural life described in the book. I kept thinking of my parents, especially my mom as I read the novel. I briefly mentioned about my parents in another review, but both of my parents had rough childhoods. Especially my dad who has been on his own since 9, working at various temples to have a place to stay doing all kinds of odd errands & jobs. Then they got married & had twins at a young age and have been just working to have the ends meet, eventually bringing our family to America. They never really had the opportunities to pursue their dreams or go to school, they had to work & raise a young family. I love my parents and forever grateful & indebted for their love, sacrifices, and support. I could not imagine my life without my parents and hope they live a long, healthy life. I hope that I can be a good daughter to them and make up for all the troubles I caused, but that’s for another time, lol...
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simple in prose & bit slow burner, but deeply affecting & poignant and well-observed family dynamic & Korean culture, the novel is told in 2nd person narrative by four voices — daughter, son, father, and mother, after Sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo (mother) got separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station. They were on their way to visit their children from the countryside, and told the kids they’ll find their way to the eldest son’s house on their own because none of them could meet them at the station. What follows is each character’s heartbreaking confession, guilt, misinterpretation, miscommunication, and frustration — not picking up their parents at the station, reflecting back on the sacrifices the mom/wife made for the family, not being a better daughter/son/husband, not acting on what mom asked or not to do, and ultimately, not knowing who mom really was.
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We don’t get to find out where mom is at the end, that broke me, and left me bit frustrated. But I have a bunch based on mom’s confession. I think author left that part out on purpose because it’s the stories that are the focus of the book. Oh my goodness, the dad’s section really tore me up! And mom’s secret, oh my god, heartbreaking! Highly recommend this hauntingly beautiful, yet sad, moving novel. ????
January 4, 2020
Please Look After Mom, Shin Kyung-sook
When sixty-nine-year-old So-Nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom? The novel explores the loss, self-recrimination, and in some cases, self-discovery caused by the mother's disappearance. The novel also considers themes related to the self-sacrifice of mothers in general (and in Korean in particular), the relationship between memories of the past and realities of the present, and the chameleonic aspects of identity.
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When sixty-nine-year-old So-Nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom? The novel explores the loss, self-recrimination, and in some cases, self-discovery caused by the mother's disappearance. The novel also considers themes related to the self-sacrifice of mothers in general (and in Korean in particular), the relationship between memories of the past and realities of the present, and the chameleonic aspects of identity.
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September 18, 2024
I've always been hesitant to watch or read anything related to family, especially mothers. The deep, unbreakable bond of blood means that even the most exaggerated expressions of maternal love feel genuine, and I can't help but tear up. This book, written by a contemporary Korean female author, delicately portrays the image of a long-suffering mother.
The story begins with a question: What if she, the mother of everyone, the mother who is often overlooked, were to disappear one day?
I'm reminded of Albert Camus's haunting words: "My mother is dead." An image immediately pops into my mind of a pale-faced boy, clinging to the warmth of his mother's love, only to utter the childish words, "Mom," as if stating a fact, devoid of any emotion.
Returning to the question, I've often wondered the same thing. What if someone, especially my mother, were suddenly gone? I couldn't imagine it. I would go crazy searching for her, by any means necessary. This book taps into the universal human experience, and the hypothetical disappearance of a mother resonates deeply with readers, which is key to its popularity.
The novel's writing technique is not uncommon. It employs the perspectives of the sister, brother, unfaithful husband, and the mother herself.
I've always felt that Koreans are deeply influenced by Confucianism, perhaps even more so than Chineses. My mother loves watching Korean family dramas, and this book aligns perfectly with those shows. Shin’s sense of guilt towards her mother makes the writing feel more sincere. However, there are still moments of excessive sentimentality. The mother's image is too suffering, and the attempt to evoke emotion through suffering feels a bit contrived. Even though we see that she has her own desires and calculative, she is ultimately portrayed as too selfless.
Shin’s goal is simple: to remind us not to neglect our mothers and to show them love through actions. While maternal love may be impossible to fully repay, even a small expression of gratitude is enough.
4 / 5 stars
The story begins with a question: What if she, the mother of everyone, the mother who is often overlooked, were to disappear one day?
I'm reminded of Albert Camus's haunting words: "My mother is dead." An image immediately pops into my mind of a pale-faced boy, clinging to the warmth of his mother's love, only to utter the childish words, "Mom," as if stating a fact, devoid of any emotion.
Returning to the question, I've often wondered the same thing. What if someone, especially my mother, were suddenly gone? I couldn't imagine it. I would go crazy searching for her, by any means necessary. This book taps into the universal human experience, and the hypothetical disappearance of a mother resonates deeply with readers, which is key to its popularity.
The novel's writing technique is not uncommon. It employs the perspectives of the sister, brother, unfaithful husband, and the mother herself.
I've always felt that Koreans are deeply influenced by Confucianism, perhaps even more so than Chineses. My mother loves watching Korean family dramas, and this book aligns perfectly with those shows. Shin’s sense of guilt towards her mother makes the writing feel more sincere. However, there are still moments of excessive sentimentality. The mother's image is too suffering, and the attempt to evoke emotion through suffering feels a bit contrived. Even though we see that she has her own desires and calculative, she is ultimately portrayed as too selfless.
Shin’s goal is simple: to remind us not to neglect our mothers and to show them love through actions. While maternal love may be impossible to fully repay, even a small expression of gratitude is enough.
4 / 5 stars
January 27, 2016
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