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Translated by Chi-Young Kim
Book on CD read by: Mark Bramhall, Janet Song, Samantha Quan, and Bruce Turk
From the book jacket: A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea – this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.
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I enjoy reading fiction from and about different cultures. Shin’s work gives the reader some insight into contemporary Korean life, but it was missing something fo ...more
Book on CD read by: Mark Bramhall, Janet Song, Samantha Quan, and Bruce Turk
From the book jacket: A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea – this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.
My reactions
I enjoy reading fiction from and about different cultures. Shin’s work gives the reader some insight into contemporary Korean life, but it was missing something fo ...more
This is the story of the Park family, whose mother/wife disappears in the Seoul subway station after missing the train she and her husband were to take on the way to visit one of their children. Using the points of view of different members of the family (older daughter, son, husband, mother, older daughter), the author intertwines the story of what happens next with various family members' recollections of events from their lives. In the process, she creates a deeply moving picture of the missi
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I know that this was a multi-million dollar success in Korea but, for me, the first half of the book was great characters, dialogue, you just loved "mom." But after her disappearance, the writing became terrible. You know that "Show. Don't Tell" is a must. The second half of the book was definitely -- Tell, don't show. Plus you never knew which character was talking. I don't know if this is due to the translation or not. But I gave it 3 stars for the first half of the book which I really enjoyed
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