Shin Kyung Sook: 5 books

Park So-nyo, 69 anos, mãe de cinco filhos, desapareceu. Ao chegar a Seul para visitá-los, saindo de sua aldeia com o marido, com quem é casada há mais de 50 anos, ela é deixada para trás em meio à multidão em uma plataforma da estação de metrô. Como fez a vida toda, ele simplesmente supôs...

The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, who first burst on to the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller, Please Look After Mom. Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside,...

**Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. ** Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look...

How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd   Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history...

WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 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:...