Author: Min Jin Lee
Length: 512 pages
Type: Fiction, Physical Book
Genre: Historical
Pachinko
Description
“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.”
Janet Dore –
This book filled a big gap in my historical knowledge—I had no idea about the basis of the tension between the Koreans and Japanese. Despite the sometimes disjointed jumps in the storyline, I truly enjoyed this book.