Pachinko, Paperback

Descriere

* Shortlisted for the National Book Award ** One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *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.

Despre autor

Lee Min Jin

scriitoare americană · n. 1968

Min Jin Lee este o autoare coreano-americană stabilită în Harlem, New York City; operele sale abordează frecvent diaspora coreeană. Este cunoscută pentru scrierea romanului Free Food for Millionaires (2007) și a romanului Pachinko (2017), finalist al National Book Award și finalist al Dayton Literary Peace Prize.