Pachinko

History is seldom kind. In MinJinLee’sbestselling, magisterial epic, four generations of a poor, proud immigrant family fight to control their destinies, exiled from a homeland they never knew. In the eariy 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 decisión to abandon her home and to reject her sons powerful father sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly toid and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From the bustling Street markets to the halls ofJapans finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lees complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent are of history.