Shin recalled through an interpreter, “After my book came out, a Korean woman writer called me and asked, ‘Did you find your mother?’ She thought the story was completely real.” Modest but confident, with long, smooth hair and a gentle demeanor, Ms.
Published in English in 2011, and translated into 32 languages, the book tells the quietly devastating story of a hard-working, illiterate rural mom who goes missing (for good, it would seem) in a bustling Seoul train station, during a trip to the big city to visit her neglectful grown children-her businessman son, and her writer daughter.Īt a café in New York, where she traveled last month for a whirlwind tour accompanying the paperback release of her novel, Ms. Shin became the first Korean and the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize-beating out Haruki Murakami, Amitav Ghosh, Rahul Bhattacharya, Banana Yoshimoto, and other worthy rivals -for her novel Please Look After Mom. Kyung-sook Shin would like everybody to know that she knows exactly where her mother is. She talks to Liesl Schillinger about her American debut and why we need our moms. with her moving account of a mother’s disappearance.
Last year Kyung-sook Shin, one of South Korea’s leading authors, surprised the U.S.
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