Pachinko* Shortlisted for the National Book Award * Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing villageon the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnantby a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostilecountry in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinkois an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival. |
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User Review - devilish2 - www.librarything.comI love that this book tells me the stories of people's experience that I was completely unaware of - the immigrant Korean experience in Japan. I somehow was expecting a lot of this book, I'd seen ... Read full review
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User Review - breic - www.librarything.comThis book started slow, for me. I had a hard time identifying with the main characters. They were so passive, afraid often even to talk. But their situation, in occupied Korea, was very curious… Over ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Pachinko |
| Author | Min Jin Lee |
| Publisher | Head of Zeus, 2017 |
| ISBN | 178669137X, 9781786691378 |
| Length | 537 pages |
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