ARGONAUT BOOKS

When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called mother? Reviews A moving Korean novel questions the reliability of memoryFINANCIAL TIMESKyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve'GUARDIANshin's prose, intimate, and hauntingly spare, powerfully conveys grief's bewildering immediately . . . A raw tribut...Read More