Please look after mother

A moving portrayal of the surprising nature, sudden sacrifices, and secret reveries of motherhood' Elle
so-nyo is a wife and mother to five grown-up children.
She is the one constant - and often unacknowledged - presence in all of their lives, supporting them no matter what the cost. Then one day, travelling into Seoul by train, So-nyo vanishes.
Whilst her family desperately search for her, they discover the desires and hopes So-nyo kept hidden.
Through a series of revelations the family members slowly paint a picture of So-nyo as they never knew her and come to realise the truth about all mothers and children - that affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love.
'Shin's prose, intimate and hauntingly spare, powerfully conveys grief's bewildering immediacy ..
a raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood'
New York Times