Please Look After Mom

At the moment, I'm trying to read more books. In particular, I've just finished reading this one: Please Look After Mom. Please Look After Mom is a novel by South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin. While I read the English version of it, it is originally written in Korean.

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If your Mom went missing, what would you do? Usually, it's us who get the lost-in-the-supermarket-and-cannot-find-mom kind of feeling, but in this book, it is the Mom that got lost and leaves everybody in frustration.

This novel made me realize how it is very easy for anybody to forget about the people who truly mean something in their lives. Sometimes, we are all too busy dreaming and thinking about the stuff that do not really matter, when the things that truly matters are right at the reach of our fingertips.

Also, the novel took me to a world that I've never been to before. A world of deep emotion in the simplest ways possible; filled with crops, jars of pickles, puppies, ancestral rites, trees with family value, dreams--whether it became a reality or it didn't, and the mysteries of what's really inside the heads of the loved ones.

To me, this book is a 9.3/10.