Pachinko"In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history."--Publisher's description. |
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User Review - hskey - LibraryThingA tremendous book. It's one of the few instances I can think of where I wanted the book to be another 100, or 200 pages; what I got was simply not enough, and that's a sign of a great read and a 5 ... Read full review
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User Review - nmele - LibraryThingI was not a fan of the author's first novel, Free Food for Millionaires, but I feel very differently about Pachinko, a multi-generational family saga that captures. much of the history and experience ... Read full review
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| Title | Pachinko |
| Author | Min Jin Lee |
| Publisher | Apollo, 2017 |
| ISBN | 178669137X, 9781786691378 |
| Length | 537 pages |
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