Pachinko

"Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee is a powerful million-copy bestseller about a Korean family’s new life in Japan.

 

In a small Korean fishing village, a club-footed and cleft-lipped man is married to a young girl in 1911. They only have Sunja, their adored daughter. When Sunja get impregnated by a married yakuza, the family is destined to a life in the shadows. But then the Christian minister, Isak, offers Sunja a new life in Japan as his wife. The family agrees and Sunja has to follow an unknown man to a hostile new country where she cannot speak the language and has no relatives. Through eight decades and several generations Min Jin Lee unfolds an epic family tale in "Pachinko" about resilience, identity and compassion.