Shin written on how the characters connect with the readers. Each chapter is based on one person point of view who share their memories with So Nyo, mother and wife of the family, in the countryside and Seoul. I cried so much while reading through the pages of this novel. It is also selected as Oprah’s “18 Books to Watch” and Amazon’s “Best Books of the Month” in April 2011. The novel was known internationally and won the 2011 Man Literary Prize. In 2009, a million of copies of the novel is sold within 10 months after its release in South Korea. While searching for her, they recall about her mother who has been sacrificing a lot to support them. Her children and husband searches for her mother. One day, she travels from the countryside to Seoul with her husband to visit her children but she is separated from him at the train station. So Nyo, a wife and mother, previously suffers from a stroke which causes her to be vulnerable and, sometimes, confused.
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