Pachinko

Min Jin Lee follows three generations of a Korean family, beginning with a desperate widow who enters an arranged marriage in the early twentieth century, and ending with her grandchildren navigating life in postwar Japan. The novel is an epic of resilience, ambition, and sacrifice, in which each generation inherits both the blessings and the wounds of its ancestors. The narrative weaves together themes of identity, belonging, morality, and the weight of choices that echo through time.

Masterful in its scope and intimacy, the book is a tribute to the quiet power of women and to the historical forces that shape lives.

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