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Kyung-Sook Shin

Born

in Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, Korea, Republic of

January 12, 1963

Website

http://www.ktlit.com/authors/shin-kyoung-sook/

Genre

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Associated Names:
* Shin Kyung-sook
* 신경숙
* 申京淑

Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'. ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 65,203 ratings · 11,180 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 44,883 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin, Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 6,068 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أرجوك اعتنِ بأمي by Kyung-Sook Shin, أفنان سعد الدين (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 4,314 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 4,143 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 2,641 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Went To See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 1,546 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness 3.62 avg rating — 1,180 ratings — published 1995 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	달에게 들려주고 싶은 이야기 by Kyung-Sook Shin, 신경숙 3.64 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Place Where the Harmonium Was 풍금이 있던 자리 by Kyung-Sook Shin, 신경숙, Agnita Tennant (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	리진 1 by Kyung-Sook Shin, 신경숙 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

tags: memories, mother, mother-s-love

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“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

tags: mother, sacrifice

201 likes

“Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

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What should our April Read Around the World book be? (Asia and Oceania)

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung (Cambodia)

12 votes 34.3%

Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)

12 votes 34.3%

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka)

11 votes 31.4%

35 total votes

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