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📚 Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee 🎰🇰🇷
Enter the rich and immersive world of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee—a sweeping saga that spans generations and continents, capturing the epic journey of a Korean family through love, loss, and resilience. 🌏📖
Follow the lives of the Baek family as they navigate the tumultuous events of the 20th century, from Japanese-occupied Korea to the bustling streets of Osaka, Japan. Through their struggles and triumphs, they confront the complexities of identity, culture, and the pursuit of the American Dream. 💔✨
Key Features:
- 🎭 Multigenerational Epic: Experience the sweeping scope of Lee's narrative as she traces the lives of multiple generations, each grappling with their own dreams, conflicts, and desires.
- 🌟 Rich Historical Detail: Immerse yourself in the vividly depicted landscapes of Korea and Japan, from the harsh realities of wartime occupation to the vibrant tapestry of postwar reconstruction.
- 👪 Complex Characters: Meet a cast of unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways, as they navigate the challenges of love, family, and cultural assimilation in a rapidly changing world.
- 📚 Themes of Identity and Belonging: Explore themes of identity, belonging, and the enduring bonds of family as the Baek family confronts prejudice, discrimination, and the search for acceptance.
Whether you're drawn to historical fiction or simply crave a compelling story that delves into the human experience, Pachinko promises to captivate your imagination and leave a lasting impact. 📚🌟
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26/10/2023
AJ
Ashima Jain
"People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants."
Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a cleft-lipped man marries a 15-year-old girl. The couple have one daughter: their beloved 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 and no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.
My favourite aspect of the book is all the history it shares about Korea and Japan. As an ardent fan of Kdramas, student of the Korean language, with a growing interest in Korean history, this book had my complete attention.
The story itself is a multi-layered narrative with an ensemble cast weaving their way through. Though I had been warned that the sheer number of characters could be confusing, I didn’t think so, perhaps in part due to the audio narration.
The book was rich with detail, well characterised, and deeply emotional. At the same time the author's style was simple and straightforward that kept you invested.
The narrator brought a measured calmness to the reading. I do feel the pronunciation of even simple Korean terms was anglicised beyond recognition which, for a book about Korean history, could have been better.
At the end, the novel had an overwhelmingly gripping story that absorbs you from the first page to the last.
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04/05/2023
AU
Amazon user
This is one of the best books I read in 2023, it was so mesmerising, the story of an immigrant family in Japan. I didn't know there was so much happening in that part of the world.
04/05/2023
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Radhika
I really enjoyed "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee. This multi-generational family saga takes readers on a journey from Korea to Japan, exploring the themes of identity, prejudice, and belonging. Lee's writing is engaging and her characters are complex and relatable. The historical context is fascinating and Lee's attention to detail immerses readers in the world she has created. While I had a few minor issues with the pacing of the book, overall I found it to be a compelling and thought-provoking read. I would definitely recommend "Pachinko" to anyone interested in family sagas or historical fiction.
02/02/2023
PR
Priyanka Roy Banerjee
That last sentence in the blurb became one of the reasons I picked up Pachinko. That, and the other reason being – I wanted to read more about Korean immigrants in Japan after I had read Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The subjects are similar but the premises of these two books are vastly apart.
It is pretty safe to say that I loved Min Jin Lee’s writing. Expressing your ethnicity in a beautiful narrative while being an immigrant is not an easy task but she seems like a master at it. Lee’s characterisation is impeccable in the way she built Sunja from a child to an old woman, passing through each phase of her life. She expressed each one beautifully – the anguish of brother-in-law Yoseb, the capability of holding the family together by the sister-in-law Kyunghee, the meritorious elder son Noa, the less educated but successful younger son Mozasu, the relentless but helpful mafia ex-lover
01/06/2022
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Nitish
“man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.” This is story of an era, truth of the most Asian family’s emotions and thought process.
21/04/2022
DM
Dakshita Matta
My Rating -5/5
This work of art was my first foray into Korean literature and I adored it. This historical drama was written in such a way as if, I were a member of this imagined world and experiencing everything in real-time while reading it.
Many decades are covered in this book. The story begins around the birth of the protagonist named Sunja and ends when she is in her seventies. Within this period, we are introduced to a large number of characters and their backstories.
The author has done marvellous work in depicting the war-stricken atmosphere of Korea and the way war destroys common livelihood and even the fulfilment of necessities becomes a herculean endeavor.
I especially, was smitten with the character named Kyunghee. Her character has been woven so intricately that it is hard to not fall in love with her. The way Khyunghee treated Sunja not as a sister-in-law but as a sister or her undying loyalty to her husband till the end of her time makes her one of my favorite characters that I have ever come across.
This book shows that in the end, it is us, the woman who have to compromise and suppress our desires whether for the sake of family prestige or one's reputation.
This book is a must-read by the fans of the historical fiction genre as this book would take you on a journey of a lifetime. This book will definitely be considered a classic in the future. However, if you are not an avid reader and do not wish for a five hundred page saga, then you can instead watch its televised adaptation on Appletv streaming platform.
18/04/2022
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Min Ji Lee's Pachinko is a family saga that takes you in the footsteps of a Korean family of three generations, 8 decades from Korea to Japan beginning from 1910 to ending in 90'.
There are three parts to the story. The first part follows the story of Sunja, her move from Korea to Japan after marriage, struggles of being an immigrant in a hostile country. And then later part follows the story of her sons Noah and Mozasu. Difficulties, Discrimination faced being Korean in Japan and stepping into the pachinko business. And the last part is the story of her grandson Solomon who wishes to expand their Pachinko business over the States.
I thoroughly enjoyed part 1,2 but in part 3 I felt like it was a bit rushed and I didn't like the way the main character Sunja was sidelined for the whole time and the ending story of Noah. So many characters are introduced, so many stories. The story would have been so better if the author focused on the existing characters.
Sunja is the character that going to stay in my heart for a long time. Her patience, her resilience, her force of nature. And I also liked the bond between Kyung-hee and Sunja. The whole depictions of father-daughter, mother-son and sister-in-law relationships are heartwarming to read. Lee's writing is beautiful and the book was unstoppable once started.
It also gives insights into the impact of Japanese colonization of Korea, war dynamics between Korea & Japan, ill-treatment, racism faced by the Koreans, plight of immigrants & even after generations they are still considered foreigners on land. Japanese involvement in the second world war, the agony of Koreans not having their own home.
A wonderful epic family saga. I highly recommend it.
29/01/2022
BK
Bekxy Kuriakose
Book Review
Read a Historical Fiction Novel after a long time.
When I started this novel I didnt even know what Pachinko meant, discovering it by and by as the story progressed, story about a Korean Family through four generations set in a time when Korea was annexed by Imperialist Japan in 1910 to 1989 when two Koreas were already existing. Vivid, fast paced and detailed it talks about the trials and tribulations of Koreans under Japanese Rule, those who moved to Japan in search of better economic conditions from abject poverty. The book talks about the omnipresent ethnic and racial bias and torture they suffered generation after generation. Its talks about people whose identity was linked with their past and even as their country was freed going back was not a viable option. Through the struggles of one family and its related members the novel casts a bright light on yet another not so well known Asian nation and its dis-enfranchised people
Lee being a Korean American has researched and worked on the novel for 30 years travelling to Japan and meeting Koreans who lived there to understand their past and present.
Although a thick novel of 500 pages plus it is easy on the eye and the narrative keeps moving ahead keeping up the interest. Recommended for those who want to get a slice of an important piece of history between Japan and Korea
25/01/2022
RC
Rajiv Chopra
This book by Min Jin Lee is fabulous. If you think of a river flowing from the source to the sea, with the tributaries adding their water to the story of the river, then you will get a sense of the book.
You can relate to the characters - none of them are supermen or superwomen. The main protagonist, Sunja, and her sister-in-law Kyunghee are two ordinary women. Sunja is plain-looking, yet she dominates the book and is the foundation on which her family rests.
This book is about family, about how a family grows and struggles across generations. It is about the struggles of Koreans in Japan in the 1930s, and how they struggled to build their families.
It is about discrimination against Koreans in Japan yet deals with the issue calmly.
There is no grand drama in the book, but you feel yourself being drawn along by the gentle currents of the story until, at last, you reach the delta and watch the sun go down in all its glory.
This is a glorious book.
17/01/2022
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An excellent book to know about the history of Koreans in simplified way. This book clearly shows the lives of Koreans in Japan during colonial Era.
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