PleaseLookAfterMom

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 coincident......