The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the second Shin Kyung-Sook novel to make it into English, I'll Be Right There.
Knopf brought out Please Look After Mom in the US (in the UK, it was published as Please Look After Mother, because ...), but despite it being touted as the first from-the-Korean break-out title, Other Press nabbed the follow-up. I.e. Knopf's enthusiasm/commitment seems to have been ... limited.
Interesting also that while (somewhat understandably) avoiding the Korean title, the English title shifts completely from the almost anticipatory original (어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고, which is pretty much where the story starts) to the very end (as, in fact, the English title is the sentence with which the book concludes).
Knopf brought out Please Look After Mom in the US (in the UK, it was published as Please Look After Mother, because ...), but despite it being touted as the first from-the-Korean break-out title, Other Press nabbed the follow-up. I.e. Knopf's enthusiasm/commitment seems to have been ... limited.
Interesting also that while (somewhat understandably) avoiding the Korean title, the English title shifts completely from the almost anticipatory original (어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고, which is pretty much where the story starts) to the very end (as, in fact, the English title is the sentence with which the book concludes).