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TOPIC 18 신경숙 작가, 세계를 감동시키다
shin kyung-sook

story touches the world

출간되자마자 엄청난 판매고를 올리며 베스트셀러에 등극한 신경숙 작가의 소설 <엄마를 부탁해>가 해외
독자들의 감성까지 울렸다는 놀라운 소식입니다. 잘 듣고, 어머니라는 존재에 대해 이야기해 보세요.

Pre-study Popular writer Shin Kyung-sook took South Korea
by storm with her novel Please Look After Mom.
뉴스 내용을 잘 듣고,
따라 읽어 보세요. Surprisingly, the novel had the same success abroad. An
English translation of the book debuted at No. 4 on the
뉴스 듣기
New York Times list of bestsellers and has been reprinted
eight times already. Other translated versions are set to
be published in 19 nations.
Set in modern-day Korea, Please Look After Mom is
the story of a family looking for their missing mother
after coming to grips with her disappearance from
a busy train station. While the novel deals with loss
and grief, it is also about realizing that no matter how
devoted a mother is to her family, she also has a life of
her own as a woman.

•touch
감동시키다, 마음을 움직이다
•debut 처음으로 등장하다
•reprint 재판을 찍다
•be set to do ~할 예정이다
•come[get] to grips with
(어려움에) 직면하다, 이해하다
•disappearance 실종, 사라짐
•loss 상실, 분실
•grief 슬픔
•no matter how + 형용사[부사]
아무리 ~해도
•devoted 헌신적인