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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.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
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Novels
Please Look After Mom (2011)
aka Please Look After Mother
I'll Be Right There (2014)
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (2015)
The Court Dancer (2018)
Violets (2022)
I Went To See My Father (2023)
On the Eve of Goodbye (2026)
aka Please Look After Mother
I'll Be Right There (2014)
The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (2015)
The Court Dancer (2018)
Violets (2022)
I Went To See My Father (2023)
On the Eve of Goodbye (2026)
Kyung-Sook Shin recommends
Blowfish (2025)
Jo Kyung-Ran
"This novel invites the readers into a special experience. It follows a woman who, once consumed by thoughts of death, gradually turns toward life, a journey that becomes the author's profound meditation on the nature of art itself. Amid the turbulence of crisis, the narrative scatters the quiet beauty of human connection like constellations across the story. The writer speaks, with urgent tenderness, to the belief that these glimmering moments of relation are in themselves the essence of art."
The Old Woman with the Knife (2022)
Gu Byeong-mo
"An unparalleled story only Gu Byeong-mo could create, with a groundbreaking female character as captivating as any in literature."
Love in the Big City (2021)
Sang Young Park
"How could a story be as intense as this, as fresh as this? Page after page, we discover contradictory emotions that are both surprising and beautiful. I was so eager to read on that my fingers turned each new page before I’d finished the last. I hope he writes another novel that inspires such hard and fast intimacy."
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