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Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist*
* An instant New York Times Bestseller *
* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
*Selected for The Queen's Reading Room*

'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. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought.
Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades.
Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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  • ISBN: 9781786691347
  • File size: 3341 KB
  • Release date: February 23, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9781786691347
  • File size: 3540 KB
  • Release date: February 23, 2017
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Fiction Literature Romance Historical Fiction

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English

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist*
* An instant New York Times Bestseller *
* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
*Selected for The Queen's Reading Room*

'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. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought.
Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades.
Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Romance Historical Fiction