Seoul · 2008 · citedPlease Look After Mom
Kyung-sook Shin
An elderly mother, So-nyo, lets go of her husband's hand in the crowd at Seoul Station and vanishes, and her grown children search the city for her while confronting how little they ever really knew her. Seoul is the anxious present: the station where she disappeared, the subway and streets papered with her photograph, the children's apartments she was coming to visit. Behind it lies the rural hometown in the far south where she spent her whole hidden life.
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