Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin (Published in America by Knopf, and translated by Chi-Young Kim, it’s the author’s first novel translated in English, but by no means her first), has conquered readers from all over the world with an apparently very simple story, told in a piercing, emotionally direct style. 'Please Look After Mom': A Guilt Trip To The Big City A blockbuster Korean novel has just been translated into English, in which a mother from the … Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin - review By Alfred Hickling Alfred Hickling Tue 1 May 2012 08.25 EDT First published on Tue 1 May 2012 08.25 EDT … In Kyung-Sook Shin's best-selling novel, the self-sacrificing Korean mother offers a counterpoint to Amy Chua's \ A parent's hardest challenge is … Ultimately, it is simply too reverent. Please Look After Mom is an odd book -- quite accomplished, in many respects, but also far too reliant on cheap (or at least cheaply presented) sentimentality. Please Look After Mom takes us on a dual journey, to the unfamiliar corners of a foreign culture and into the shadowy recesses of the heart. Kyung-sook Shin’s novel, Please Look After Mom, is the first of her books to be translated into English. In spare, exquisite prose, Kyung-sook Shin penetrates the very essence of what it means to be a family, and a human being.” … Ultimately, it is simply too reverent.