A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
Min Jin Lee is the bestselling author of two novels. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a New York Times bestseller and was included on over 75 best books of the year lists. It is currently being adapted for television by Apple TV. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times, NPR's Fresh Air and USA Today. Min Jin Lee's writings have appeared in The New Yorker, the TLS, the Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others. In 2019, Lee was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame. She serves as a trustee of PEN America, a director of the Authors Guild and on the National Advisory Board of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard.
Luminous... a powerful meditation on what immigrants sacrifice to
achieve a home in the world' -- Junot Diaz
Gripping... a stunning achievement, full of heart, full of grace,
full of truth' -- Erica Wagner
A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan
enduring and prospering through the 20th century -- David Mitchell,
Guardian
A rich, moving novel about exile, identity and the determination to
endure * Sunday Times *
Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people
that history seems intent on erasing * Guardian *
The work of a writer in complete control of her characters and her
story and with an intense awareness of the importance of her
heritage... Told with such flair and linguistic dexterity that I
found myself unable to put it down. Every year, there are a few
standout novels that survive long past the hype has died down and
the hyperbolic compliments from friends scattered across the dust
jacket have been forgotten. Pachinko, a masterpiece of
empathy, integrity and familial loyalty, will be one of those
novels' -- John Boyne, Irish Times
We never feel history being spoon-fed to us: it is wholly absorbed
into character and story, which is no mean feat for a novel
covering almost a century of history * Financial Times *
An epic, multi-generational saga * Mail on Sunday, Best of 2017
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A great book, a passionate story, a novel of magisterial sweep.
It's also fiendishly readable - the real deal. An instant classic,
a quick page-turner, and probably the best book of the year --
Darin Strauss, New York Times-bestselling author of Chang and
Eng.
A long, complex book, it wears its research lightly, and is a
page-turner. You can sense the author's love and understanding for
all the characters, the good and the flawed * Irish Examiner. *
Remarkable... A striking introduction to lives, to a world, [the
reader] may never have seen, or even thought to look at. In our
increasingly fractured and divisive times, there can be no higher
purpose for literature: all in the pages of a book that, once
you've started, you'll simply be unable to put down' * Harper's
Bazaar *
Elegant and soulful, both intimate and sweeping. This story of
several generations of one Korean family in Japan is the story of
every family whose parents sacrificed for their children, every
family whose children were unable to recognize the cost, but it's
also the story of a specific cultural struggle in a riveting time
and place. Min Jin Lee has written a big, beautiful book filled
with characters I rooted for and cared about and remembered after
I'd read the final page -- Kate Christensen, award-winning author
of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special
Both for those who love Korea, as well as for those who know no
more than Hyundai, Samsung and kimchi, this extraordinary book will
prove a revelation of joy and heartbreak. I could not stop turning
the pages, and wished this most poignant of sagas would never end.
Min Jin Lee displays a tenderness and wisdom ideally matched to an
unforgettable tale that she relates just perfectly -- Simon
Winchester, author of Korea: A Walk Through the Land of
Miracles
A compassionate, clear gaze at the chaotic landscape of life
itself. In this haunting epic tale, no one story seems too minor to
be briefly illuminated. Lee suggests that behind the facades of
wildly different people lie countless private desires, hopes and
miseries, if we have the patience and compassion to look and listen
* New York Times Book Review *
Love, luck, and talent combine with cruelty and random misfortune
in a deeply compelling story, with the troubles of ethnic Koreans
living in Japan never far from view. An old-fashioned epic whose
simple, captivating storytelling delivers both wisdom and truth *
Kirkus *
[A] beautifully crafted story of love, loss determination, luck,
and perseverance... Lee's skilful development of her characters and
story lines will draw readers into the work. Those who enjoy
historical fiction with strong characterisations will not be
disappointed as they ride along on the emotional journeys offered
in the author's latest page-turner' * Library Journal *
An exquisite, haunting epic... Lee's profound novel of losses and
gains explored through the social and cultural implications of
pachinko-parlor owners and users is shaped by impeccable research,
meticulous plotting, and empathic perception' * Booklist Starred
Review *
A sweeping, engrossing family saga... a poignantly told tale.
Gracefully written and dotted with memorable images, evocative of
the pace and time, it's a page-turning panorama of one family's
path through suffering to prosperity in 20th-century Japan' *
Literary Review *
Stunning... Pachinko is about outsiders, minorities and the
politically disenfranchised. But it is so much more besides. Each
time the novel seems to find its locus - Japan's colonization of
Korea, World War II as experienced in East Asia, Christianity,
family, love, the changing role of women - it becomes something
else. It becomes even more than it was' * New York Times *
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