by Kyung-Sook Shin · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783492055109
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«Als Mutter verschwand» is the novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in hardback (248 pages, in German).
A mother disappears in a busy Seoul station while on her way to visit her adult children. The long search leads her family to rediscover who that woman was and the essential role she played in their lives. Between urban Seoul and rural Korea, the story explores maternal sacrifice, generational rifts, and the love that sustains a family.
It is the German translation of the work by Kyung-Sook Shin, originally published in 2008 and winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.
Ideal for book clubs and for those who enjoy contemporary fiction and family-centred stories.
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. He is known for his Sir John Appleby series, which started with Death at the President's Lodging (1936).
