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Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko follows four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, exploring resilience, identity, and the lasting effects of historical displacement. While Sunja’s choices drive the story, the heart of the novel lies in the parallel yet contrasting journeys of her sons, Noa and Mozasu. Their fates highlight how small shifts in self-acceptance and identity can lead to drastically different outcomes.
What I loved most about Pachinko is how Min Jin Lee uses historical fiction almos ...more
What I loved most about Pachinko is how Min Jin Lee uses historical fiction almos ...more
Pachinko opens in the late 1800s and travels through to 1989, beginning in Korea before there was a North and a South. Spanning many decades, Min Jin Lee has written a gorgeous story following the lives of four generations of one family. Each generation of family is given ample space to tell their stories and live their lives, running through emotional highs and lows as their life choices prove to have consequences for the generations after. Each character is complex, leading passionate, well-de
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