29+ Pachinko Min Jin Lee PNG. It's also fiendishly readable—the real deal. It's a national book award finalist, and, in what may be an even greater honor than that, it made my favorite books list.

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I have found that it is easier to explain why i don't like a particular. The idea to write about the korean immigrant experience in japan first came to her in 1989. Cover design by anne twomey.

When sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin.

Min jin lee's sprawling family epic spans decades and two clashing cultures — korea and japan. Min jin lee's stunning novel pachinko — her second, after free food for millionaires (2007) — announces its ambitions right from the opening sentence: The couple have one child, their beloved daughter sunja. Pachinko is a romantic, thriller and fiction novel in which sunja is impregnated by an old fallow in her young age.