Description
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.
The novel was inspired by a guest lecture the author attended at Yale in 1989. Where she was introduced to the concept of “Zainichi” and heard the true story of a young boy bullied due to being of Korean decent.
Additional information
| Author: | Min Jin Lee |
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| ISBN: | 9781838930509 |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Year of Publication: | 560 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
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