NATIONAL Book Award FINALIST * A N EW YORK TIMES Book REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE Book OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES Book CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE Roxane Gay\'s Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew. *Includes reading group guide * p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}.
From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan\'s finest universities to the Pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee\'s complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty.
But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son\'s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan.
He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought.
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea.
And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.
There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers.
NATIONAL Book Award FINALIST * A N EW YORK TIMES Book REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE Book OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES Book CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE Roxane Gay\'s Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew
