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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Translation copyright © 2011 by Chi-Young Kim
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in slightly different form in South Korea as
O
ma rŭl Put’akhae
by Changbi Publishers, P’aju-si Kyŏnggi-do, in 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Kyung-sook Shin.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sin, Kyong-suk.
[Omma rul put’ak hae. English]
Please look after mom : a novel / by Kyung-sook Shin ;
translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. — 1st ed.
p.   cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59549-2
I. Kim, Chi-Young.   II. Title.
PL
992.73.
K
9404613 2011
895.7′3—dc22                    2010035230
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Jacket photograph © Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson
v3.1
O love, so long as you can love.
—
FRANZ LISZT
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
1
Nobody Knows
2
I’m Sorry, Hyong-chol
3
I’m Home
4
Another Woman
EPILOGUE
Rosewood Rosary
Reading Group Guide
A Note About the Author
1
Nobody Knows
IT
’S BEEN ONE WEEK
since Mom went missing.
The family is gathered at your eldest brother Hyong-chol’s house, bouncing ideas off each other. You decide to make flyers and hand them out where Mom was last seen. The first thing to do, everyone agrees, is to draft a flyer. Of course, a flyer is an old-fashioned response to a crisis like this. But there are few things a missing person’s family can do, and the missing person is none other than your mom. All you can do is file a missing-person report, search the area, ask passersby if they have seen anyone who looks like her. Your younger brother, who owns an online clothing store, says he posted something about your mother’s disappearance, describing where she went missing; he uploaded her picture and asked people to contact the family if they’d seen her. You want to go look for her in places where you think she might be, but you know how she is: she can’t go anywhere by herself in this city. Hyong-chol designates you to write up the flyer, since you write for a living. Yo ............

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