They are gathered at Hyong-chol’s house, trying frantically to come up with a strategy to find their missing mother. We meet Song-nyo’s family one week after the disappearance.
So-nyo’s eldest son, Hyong-chol, lives in Seoul with his wife and family and it is while his parents are on their way to visit him (to celebrate the father’s birthday) that his mother goes missing she was holding her husband’s hand on the busy underground station platform one moment, then she seemed to slip from his grasp and just disappeared into the crowd. The place is almost a throwback to a bygone era. So-nyo lives a very simple fairly rural life with her husband at the family home, where there are many privations. The premise of the story is very simple: So-nyo is a wife and mother to five children, all of whom are now grown-up and living their lives in different parts of the country (South Korea). It was, in its own way, though, a celebration of mothering. I hadn’t realised the coincidence, that, of course, Mother’s Day is in March in the UK, so it was an even more appropriate choice than I planned! If you were looking for some sentimental celebration of the joys of maternal love, this was not it, however. This was the March choice for my Facebook Reading Challenge, the theme of which was a book from Asia.
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