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A Victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. Busan, Korea 1911: A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fteen-year-old beauty. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by 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 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. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.
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Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Pachinko
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Min Jin Lee
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN10
- 1786691361
- ISBN13
- 9781786691361
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Friendship, World War II, Children, Society, Japan, Asia, Race, Racism, Marriage, Genealogy, Sagas, Migration, Adapted into Series, Korea, Discrimination, Generations, Generational Differences, South Korea, Foreigners, Korean Literature, Yakuza
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- Pachinko
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- A Victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. Busan, Korea 1911: A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fteen-year-old beauty. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by 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 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. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.