Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.įollowing a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. 7, 2017 An absorbing saga of 20th-century Korean experience, seen through the fate of four generations. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. The character-driven tale features a large ensemble of characters who become subjected to issues of racism and stereotypes, among other events with historical origins in the 20th. Pachinko is an epic historical novel following a Korean family who eventually migrates to Japan. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. Pachinko is the second novel by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose. Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *
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