Please Look After My Mother (Hangul: 엄마 를 부탁해) is a novel by Korean author Kyung-sook Shin about a family’s search for their missing mother. The novel sold one million copies within 10 months of its initial release in 2009 in South Korea. It gained international attention, and the author won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011. The novel has been adapted for both theatrical and musical genres.
In April 2012, the novel sold over two million copies, and 10,000 copies were published as a special edition to commemorate the achievement.
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