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A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.

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Shortlisted for the National Book Award
One of the New York Times ´s 10 Best Books of 2017
Selected for Emma Watson´s Our Shared Shelf book club

´This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee´s novel takes us through four generations and each character´s search for identity and success. It´s a powerful story about resilience and compassion´ BARACK OBAMA.

Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on 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 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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´Stunning ... Pachinko is about outsiders, minorities and the politically disenfranchised. But it is so much more besides. Each time the novel seems to find its locus - Japan´s colonization of Korea, World War II as experienced in East Asia, Christianity, family, love, the changing role of women - it becomes something else. It becomes even more than it was´ New York Times .

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Lee, Min Jin
Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American author and journalist. Born in Seoul, her family moved to America when she was seven. She worked as a lawyer before deciding to write full time. For more information, visit minjinlee.com.

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