The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom -- perhaps the first real 'international bestseller' from (South) Korea (yes, it made it to ... 95th in one of the two weeks it was on the USA Today bestseller list ...).
Note that Shin has written a lot more, and I'm not sure this is the ideal book with which to introduce her to an American audience -- though given its phenomenal success in South Korea it presumably seemed like an obvious choice; note, however, that for example in France the wonderful Editions Philippe Picquier had already published two of her other titles before this one.
Note that Shin has written a lot more, and I'm not sure this is the ideal book with which to introduce her to an American audience -- though given its phenomenal success in South Korea it presumably seemed like an obvious choice; note, however, that for example in France the wonderful Editions Philippe Picquier had already published two of her other titles before this one.