Pachinko

Author(s): Min Jin Lee

General Fiction

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. --- -Million-copy bestseller-National Book Award finalist-One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017


Product Information

Min Jin Lee is an author and journalist. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was named as one of the 'Top 10 Novels of the Year' by The Times and USA Today. She wrote Pachinko whilst living in Tokyo, and now lives in New York with her family.

General Fields

  • : 9781786691378
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Apollo
  • : 0.378
  • : August 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Min Jin Lee
  • : Paperback
  • : 535