Pachinko

Mari Jose, an ex C1 student , would like to recommend you to read Pachinko  by Min Jin Lee.

Publishing House: Grand Central Publishing

Genre: Historical Fiction

Level: C1

Synopsis: 

Yeongdo, Korea 1911.

In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, 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 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, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.

Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.


Literary awards: 
Reading Women Award for Fiction (2017), Litsy Award for Historical Fiction (2017)


Mari Jose's opinion about the book:

It's been a learning experience. The book took me to another time and place. This historical fiction novel has allowed me to know about Korean & Japanese issues in the early to mid-20th century.