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A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle).

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE

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"There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. 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. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. 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.

Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. 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.

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[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

Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing ― Guardian

Luminous... a powerful meditation on what immigrants sacrifice to achieve a home in the world' -- Junot Diaz

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

An epic, multi-generational saga ― Mail on Sunday, Best of 2017

A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the 20th century -- David Mitchell, Guardian

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.

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

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

Gripping... a stunning achievement, full of heart, full of grace, full of truth' -- Erica Wagner

A rich, moving novel about exile, identity and the determination to endure ― Sunday Times

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

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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.

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After reading through the final page, I cried. Then occurred to my mind the very first sentence of the story as above quoted. It says all.

The book depicts an on-going saga of Korean immigrant families who have been subjugated to subhuman condition for generations in modern Japan, another inconvenient subject which most Japanese people have chosen not to face up to. Notwithstanding its unique circumstances, the story presents us with more a universal proposition; embracing helplessness/humiliations dictated by tyranny of destiny and yet in dignity against all odds, which, I believe, is one of the reasons why so many readers with any real-life experiences, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, sex, age, etc., feel themselves related to the people in this story.

What adds more depths and textures to storyline is a variety of distinctive characters who pursue each different dream for a better future while facing own internal identity issue in hostile environments. The author effectively put contrasting pairs of brothers, sisters, and husbands to stress the difference in each struggle/disappointment, and thereby succeeded in underscoring both magnitude and extent of the hardships they must grapple with.

Also noteworthy is the author's compassionate eyes upon the surrounding Japanese characters who too must live with each social stigma due to physical deformity, mental disorder, divorce, suicide, certain types of disease, etc. among their family members. While describing predicaments of diaspora Korean families, she convincingly sheds lights on maladies of modern Japanese society and, in particular, multifaceted discrimination, internalized in the people's minds, against various minority groups including even atomic-bomb survivors.

In Acknowledgement, she reveals that what inspired for her writing this book was the sad story of a mid-school boy in Japan who was harassed/bullied, because of his Korean heritage, and jumped off a building to kill himself, which shocked her during senior year at Yale back in 1989. Since then she had conceived this story while researching, interviewing, and also living in Japan.

I lately learned that Amherst College had recommended this book for the incoming students in 2019 to read during the summer. I also found several YouTube videos on her book tour at various book-clubs and such academic institutions as Harvard, MIT, etc. where she was met with a room-packed enthusiastic audiences, including, among others, students with Korean lineage, who had been shocked, as was the author herself three decades earlier, at the never-ending plights of Zainichi Koreans.

So much as I am surprised at the remarkably strong interests/reactions by overall US intelligent communities, represented, notably, in personal endorsements by a former President and his Ambassador, I am not surprised at all by little, if any, comments from Japanese liberal groups/media or individuals who usually are keenly vocal about any human rights violations in other 'autocratic' states. I rather hope that the younger generation in both Japan and Korea share this story especially now given the current antagonistic political climate between the two countries. Empathizing to each struggle with his/her own identity, vulnerability, resilience, and above all, dignity of these unsung people at the mercy of ruthless history would certainly serve to more an amicable relationship at an individual level.

Since I had a privilege of spending several years in San Francisco, I have long cherished 'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan, another great story about generations of diaspora families who fled from Japanese military aggressions in the 1930s, Chinese immigrants to California. I have read this beautifully crafted story many times and often wondered about each journey of old ladies whom I happened to sit next to in a commuting bus running through Chinatown. I shall probably read 'PACHINKO' over and over again for years to come and would wish well-being of real Sunjas living in various parts of this country.

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NOAがサンジャに見つけられて自殺するシーン。ツッコミどころが多いと思う。父親がヤクザであることを受け入れられず自殺するほどの精神性の青年がなぜ銃を持っているの？まあ、持っていてもいいとして、アメリカのように簡単に手に入らないんだからその辺は背景描写しないと、安っぽさが出てしまう。

それと、父親がヤクザで学費を出してもらっていたことを受け入れられなかったとして、サンジャとハンスと縁を切って逃げ続けていたと。それはわかるとして、その後何年もして見つかった、というだけで、家族もいるのにそんなに簡単に即自殺するだろうか。そんな精神性にリアリティを感じないし、まあ、あるとしても、背景描写•心理描写をせめてしようよ、と思う。

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It is truly a masterpiece!
I was so immersed in the story and I felt sympathy for every character herein.
It is definitely worth reading and worth 5+ stars.
Bravo to the author!

Very worth to read it

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I was raised up in Osaka. When I was an elementary school student, I used to commute to coaching school in Tsuruhashi. Although I noticed that there were a lot of yakiniku restaurants, I wasn't interested in Korean stuff so I was completely ignorant of the history until I read this book.
The discrimination of being Zainichi tyousenjin in Japan is depicted in this book, I think it still persists more or less even in this era. I remembered that my dad said that he hates tyousenjin. They were cunning and dirty. I suppose we unconsciously need someone whose position is extremely low and mocked badly by others like the hierarchical system in India. It shows us that things go well thanks to it.

I was impressed by the author's deep insight of human psychology and well research and understanding. I think Noa's weakness represents Japanese character. Japanese are very sensitive and serious(not all though).

I couldn't dislike Hansu throughout the stories. He was Yakuza. But his devotion to Sunja seemed true. If I were Sunja, I might be a Hansu's second wife haha.

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1910年、日本は韓国を併合した。以来韓国人は、日本政府の圧制のもと、苦難の日々を送る。新生活を求めて日本に渡る人たちも多く、大阪、生野区、猪飼野地区にはコリアンタウンが形成される。世界大戦後まもなく朝鮮戦争が起こり、祖国は北と南に分断されて、アイデンティティが不確かとなりつつ、日本人に同化しようとする者もいるが、様々な偏見や差別に苦しむ。
本書はそうした韓国の辿ってきた歴史的状況を背景に、4世代に渡って、懸命に生きた韓国人たちの物語である。1910-1933、１933-1962、1962-1989 の三章で構成されている。4世代に渡るそれぞれの人物を詳述することはできないが、夫婦、親子、兄弟の絆が、時に温かく時に痛ましく描かれていて、心をうたれる。そして彼らと友情を育む日本人もいれば、彼らを利用するだけの日本人もいて、様々な物語が紡がれる。

2世代目の Sunja には、韓国、釜山近くの島、Yengto(影島）で、優しく接してきた実業家の男 Hansu に騙されて身ごもった息子(Noa)と、その後牧師のIsaku に救われて、彼と結婚し、Isaku の兄(Yoseb)を頼って大阪に渡り、そこで生まれた息子(Mozasu) がいる。この３世代目の、父親が違うふたりの息子たちは、それぞれの道を歩むが最終的にはパチンコ業に就く。苦学して早稲田に入学したNoa は、自分の父親が Hansu だと知って、突然姿を消し、長野の地で日本人として生きて家庭も持ち、パチンコ業で成功しているが、Hansu が手配して探し出し、Sunja を連れていく。母 Sunja に会った Noa は、母と別れた直後に、銃で自害するのだ。早稲田で英文学を勉強し、Dickens を好んだ Noa 、母 Sunja は後に一族の墓に参ったとき思う。If she hadn't visited him the way she had, maybe he might still be alive.
また Mozasu の息子 Solomon(４世代目）はアメリカのコロンビア大学で学び、銀行業に就き、未来が約束されたかにみえるが････。

日本政府のとった政策は併合当時もさることながら、大戦時には熾烈を極める。牧師の Isak はある日官憲に連行され、長期に渡って拘留され、拷問を受け、釈放されたときは死の寸前だった。Sunja や兄の Yoseb, Yoseb の妻の Kyunghee (生涯義妹のSunja に寄り添いともに生きて行く）たちの見守るなか、息をひきとる。Yoseb も長崎に出稼ぎに行った際、原爆に会い、その後苦しみつつ生涯を終える。
その後の日本のようすは、進行する物語の背景としては、あまり描かれていないように思われる。例えばNoa が早稲田に入った1960年代は日本はまさに安保闘争のただ中であったのだが、それらとの関連も見られない。そうした何らかの欠落はあるものの、それぞれの人物にいくつもの物語があり、惹き込まれ、考えさせられ、500ページを超える長編だが飽きさせない。英語も簡潔でわかりやすい。

それにしてもなぜ韓国人の多くは pachinko を生業としているのか。彼らは常に日本の yakuza と結託しているのか。Noa や Mozasu は？日本人の仲間、Goro-san は？私には疑問が残った。
韓国と日本は、今なお友好と敵対の複雑な関係にあるのも残念なことである。

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I originally watched some episodes of the Pachinko dramatization on Apple TV. Because of the excellent acting and engaging script, I became quickly engrossed in the production. After learning the story would be released in 4 seasons, I was dismayed knowing I would be at the edge of my seat for the next four years yearning to know what happens to these characters. Wishing to spare myself this misery, I looked up the book, Pachinko, upon which the drama was based, bought my copy from Amazon Kindle and read it cover to cover in two days. Being a slow reader and being that Pachinko is not a light read, I got through that book very fast simply because almost from the first page, I could not put it down.

Generally, I’m not a fan of family sagas, but I have recently begun watching Korean dramas with subtitles. While enjoying the dramas, I have become interested in Korean history and culture, so reading this book, written by Korean American author, Min Jin Lee, was an opportunity to acquaint myself with Korean culture from the lens of someone raised in a Korean household, but who also has lived and been educated in the United States.

I was grateful that, unlike the movie, the story in this book runs along in a sequential timeline with very little time-shifting. Lee presents this story in a universal, omnipresent point of view, so one gets the story from multiple viewpoints, not only from major characters, but from some minor ones as well. The writing is so skillfully executed, the narrative runs seamlessly along. The writing is also immersive with just enough description to set the scenes. Through this evocative writing, I could feel the closeness of life in Sunja’s childhood boarding house while appreciating the freedom and beauty of the black rocks by the seashore where Sunja and her companions washed clothes and where she spent time with her lover, Koh Hansu. A week after finishing this book I can still close my eyes and feel the poverty of Osaka where Sunju and her family eked out a living, all crowded in a small, rickety dwelling, held down and oppressed for being Koreans by their Japanese overlords.

The strongest part of the story were the characters, all thoughtfully written and fleshed out. Sunja was a plain, uneducated peasant girl whose great intelligence, wisdom, loyalty, faith and well-honed instincts helped lay the foundations for her family’s survival during rough times and later for their great prosperity despite the prejudice they were forced to endure. Her two loves, Koh Hansu and Isak, different as two men could be, protected her and her family in their own way. Her son, Noa, witnessed the hardships of the World War II in his younger years, but because of his great intelligence and because of the secret presence of his wealthy, natural father, he was spared many of the dangers and deprivations other Korean children faced. Growing up and being educated alongside Japanese children, he came to be greatly conflicted between his Japanese education and his Korean heritage. His younger brother, Mozasu, lacked the patience for education, yet he was diligent and street-smart and made a success of his life running and eventually owning pachinko parlors. Koh Hansu was probably the most tragic of the characters Lee highlights. He is a gifted Korean, born into poverty who found success by selling his soul to his Japanese overlords. He has married into a wealthy Japanese family, even been adopted by his father-in-law, yet he has little respect for his Japanese family. He loved the Korean peasant girl, Sunja, but she refused to become his mistress and went on to pursue her own life. Though Sunja is only one among many lovers, he remains haunted by her throughout his life. She gave birth to his only son, but she also touched his heart in a way no other human being could. Though Koh is a much feared and corrupt Yakuza in later years, he still goes out of his way to show kindness to Sunja and her family. Also of interest are the couple Yeseb and his beautiful wife, Kyunghee. Yeseb struggles with a feeling of inferiority towards his younger brother, Isak, who he believes is too idealistic and fragile for this word. He is a protective older brother hemmed in by traditional, paternalistic ideals that prove costly in the foreign world of Imperial Japan where his family is forced to exist under difficult and almost impossible conditions. He works multiple jobs and still isn’t able to make enough to support his family, yet he refuses to let his wife work outside the home. Later he becomes disabled and is forced to become dependent upon others, including his wife, for care. The most beautiful thing about this extended family is these individuals have their share of conflict, resentments, and misunderstandings, but throughout their lives, they are completely devoted to each other. When trouble threatens from the outside or when one family member is in need, each one of them comes through for the other.

The book starts in Korea during the early part of the twentieth century during the Japanese occupation. In Korea, Sunja and her family, as well as other Koreans, are regarded with suspicion by their Japanese overlords. Not only do the Japanese exploit them and take the best land and sea can produce, but they regard and treat the native Koreans as innately inferior. The attitudes don’t change after World War II during occupied Japan or even as late as the 1980’s when the book ends. Koreans living in Japan or even born there are still regarded legally and socially as foreigners. Returning to Korea, as many of these individuals desired to do after the war, was problematic as well, and even downright deadly. Families and individuals from the north of Korea, had to return to a part of Korea run by the Communists. There were individuals in the book who returned and were never heard from again. The south of Korea was run by a dictator most of the time and beset by chaos and corruption, as well as the Korean war. Sunja and her family were trapped in Japan by these circumstances, but Japan, first Osaka and then Yokohama, became their home. Here they were able to start and run businesses and earn a living. Being Koreans, they might never be fully accepted in their community, but here they found a life. They weren’t shunned by all Japanese. Lee introduces her readers to Japanese individuals touched by this family, but all of them have one thing in common: because of circumstances or past actions or mistakes, they have been marginalized by their Japanese countrymen. There is Mozasu’s girlfriend, Etsuko, who was divorced by her husband because of infidelity. In her disgrace she had to leave her community in Hokkaido and move to another town. Mozasu’s first employer had an autistic son and was also marginalized. Noa’s first serious girlfriend, Akiko, who doesn't fit in with her Japanese peers, is a precocious Japanese girl from a wealthy family, who is fascinated by Noa’s Korean heritage. When Akiko, through her ignorance and thoughtlessness, interferes and unwittingly forces an explosive family issue, Noa freezes her totally out of his life.

I never heard the name Pachinko until I watched some of the drama on my streaming service. As the book explains, it is a popular game in Japan that is a cross between pinball and slot machines. Winners appear to win by chance and thereby have hope for a good outcome, but the owners set the machines and allow some wins so that other less fortunate people will be drawn in. Winners are those who happen to play during the time of day the pins are loose and ready to yield the winnings. I suppose life can be looked upon as a game of Pachinko. Pachinko was one of the few avenues where Korean individuals could make their fortunes in post-war Japan. It was not considered respectable enough for good Japanese people to be a part of, even though the Japanese loved to play it. Both of Sunja’s sons end up making a living running Pachinko.

This book presented a window into, what are to me, two foreign cultures, Korean and Japanese. Sunja’s extended family is made up of aristocrats from the north of Korea as well as peasants from the south. Sunja’s youth was grounded in Confucian, old world Korean ideals, but as time passed, she and her family were introduced to Christianity, the values of Imperial Japan, post-war commercialism, and globalization. The values of her Korean childhood such as loyalty, morality, revereance for family and work ethic remained in Sunja and were passed on to subsequent generations of her family. What stood out to me was the great influence of Christianity and how its message of forgiveness and loving grace impacted this family and tempered the harsher aspects of their traditional Korean ideals. Unlike many modern authors dealing with Christian characters, Lee presented the clergy in a balanced and realistic way, neither lionizing them nor demeaning them.

All of Lee’s characters were carefully nuanced and believable. Individuals like Sunja, Isak, Noa, Solomon, and Hansu came alive to me and continue to haunt me nearly a week since I finished the book. I was truly sad to come to the end of book. It was a beautiful read, one of the best books I’ve read in the past three or four years. I highly recommend it!

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Livro fantátisco. Aprendi várias coisas sobre a cultura coreana/japanesa, as quais não fazia ideia. A história em si é muito bonita, ao estilo de Cem anos de solidão, do Gabriel Garcia Marques, porém é focada na trajetória das mulheres da família a qual acompanhamos a vida ao longo do século 20. Vale muito a pena ler para conhecer um pouco dessa parte da história do mundo a qual não aprendemos com muito foco.

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Lo que pagas

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Entrega rápida, buenas condiciones a pesar de no traer celofán protector.
En cuanto a la trama del libro:
4/5☆
Muy buena historia y narrativa, atención a detalles y su redacción permite al lector comprender aspectos específicos del país y su historia. Los personajes aparecen y desaparecen causando un poco de confusión en cuanto a qué pasa con ellos; sin embargo, una vez procesada la historia, así es la vida. Personas entran y salen sin un final de nuestras vidas y la escritora lo plasma de una manera muy sutil.
Conforme avanzas en el libro la historia se vuelve algo lenta, pero vale la pena continuar con la lectura.

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Fascinating story of a different world

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A varied and illuminating story of the lives of a family who move to a foreign country in the hope of improving their lives. They survive through hardship and tragedy, experience some successes and endure significant heartache.

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