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| Title | : | Pachinko |
| Author | : | Min Jin Lee |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 2017 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asia. Audiobook. Literary Fiction |
Min Jin Lee
Kindle Edition | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 4.27 | 171498 Users | 17769 Reviews
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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.

Present Books Toward Pachinko
| Original Title: | Pachinko ASIN B01GZY28JA |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Daisuke Totoyama, Hoonie Kim, Yangjin Kim, Sunja Kim, Baek Isak, Koh Hansu, Yoseb Baek, Kyunghee Baek, Noa Baek, Mozasu Baek, Kim, Tamaguchi, Goro, Akiko, Yumi, Mieko, Bingo, Hideo Takano, Solomon Baek, Risa Iwamura, Koichi, Ume, Haruki Totoyama, Ayame |
| Setting: | Korea Osaka(Japan) |
| Literary Awards: | Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2018), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017), Reading Women Award for Fiction (2017), Litsy Award for Historical Fiction (2017) International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2019) |
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Ratings: 4.27 From 171498 Users | 17769 ReviewsPiece Containing Books Pachinko
I read your review after posting my own short review and recognized a lot; admittedly my review isn't nearly as well written ;)Rating 3.75I had gone back and forth on reading this one. I would get it from the library and return it. But it was a National Book Award finalist, so it should be good. My library got the audio and I had to wait months to get it, so it should be good. It's historical fiction and I love that, so it should be good. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I had many issues with it.Pachinko tells the story of several generations of one Korean family. You first start out, learning about this family and
Just having finished this behemoth in the last hour, I want to put a disclaimer first. That reading this over a longer period of time than I would usually read a book, even of this length, probably made me MORE analytic than for my usual review. Or reaction. More critical. Because I truly wanted to give it a higher star value. I really did! But I cannot. So don't be scared away from reading it, because I am specific or amused for some of the tangents she took. Take it with a grain of salt.

I absolutely loved this book, I hope to read this one again, if I ever find the time:)
" 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. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?... Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not."I hadnt really understood exactly what pachinko was before reading this novel. This book and Wikipedia have educated me on the topic. The way I envision pachinko is as a cross between a pinball machine and a slot machine. Its a gambling game, where the
If I could, I'd give this audiobook 10 stars for writing & audio narration. The author is masterful at teaching us history, examing motives with a generous heart, and letting us think for ourselves. The audio narrator is amazing too.
A rich and vivid story spanning nearly 100 years from Korea at the start of the 20th century to pre-war Osaka and finally Tokyo and Yokohama. Pachinko is a long novel that is beautifully crafted, elegant, passionate with characters that you find yourself rooting for and caring about while reading and will remember long after the novel has ended. " A club footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen year old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sonja. When Sonja falls pregnant by


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