Pachinko
Book Details
Author(s)Min Jin Lee
PublisherHead of Zeus
ISBN / ASIN178669137X
ISBN-139781786691378
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours
Sales Rank10,270
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
A Victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
Yeongdo, Korea 1911.
A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Yeongdo, Korea 1911.
A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.

