National Bestseller In this bestselling, 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.
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.
And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.`` 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. ``There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers.
National Bestseller In this bestselling, 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
