Please Look After Mom: A Novel Ingram but add death and mayhem

but add death and mayhem to the palace intrigue

——《泰晤士报》（The Times）

Across two parallel narratives

沿着国境线飞驰，绕过散落的飞地，驰骋于帕米尔无人区，在苏联的核爆试验场抛锚，他以探险者的精神见证隔绝之地；踏上撒马尔罕的金色之路，徜徉于血腥战场和帝国宫殿，凝视最古老的圣书，抚摸玄奘笔下的佛塔，他试图寻回古人的目光；结识将未来寄托于汉语的塔吉克青年，遇见困守咸海七年的中国人，在乌兹别克的酒吧里，听见把酒言欢的商人指着撒向空中的钞票大喊：“你之前看到的全是假象，这才是现实！”一路上，他遇见形形色色的人，徘徊在希冀与失意、自由与迷失之间。

Please Look After Mom: A Novel Ingram but add death and mayhemNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 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 Mom? A terrific novel that stayed with me long after Id finished its final, haunting