Kyung-Sook Shin

Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, 'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history....

The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times best seller Please Look After Mom. Homesick and alone, a teenage girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside...

“The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must’ve stood there after the bus had left. About what he must’ve felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared. About how...

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. Told...