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I Went to See My Father by Kyung-sook Shin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must've stood there after the bus had left. About what he must've felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared.About how long he must've wa ...Show more
I Went to See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn and fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own daughter. Then, after stumbling upon a chest of letters, Hon dis ...Show more
I'll be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, 20-something-year-old woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from h ...Show more
Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung-Sook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is about So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. A few years before the novel begins she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from her home village in the countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up child ...Show more
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well ...Show more
Violets by Kyung-sook Shin; Anton Hur (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
South Korea, 1970. San is a lonely child, ostracised from her community. She soon finds a friend in a girl called Namae, until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path.We next meet San, aged twenty-tw ...Show more
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