Pachinko - New Cover ( Certified reading)

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The million-copy bestseller National Book Award Finalist One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2017 Selected for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club “This is a captivating book… Min Jin Lee’s novel takes us through four generations and each character’s search for identity and success. It’s a powerful story about resilience and compassion.” – Barack Obama Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a clubfooted, 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 faces 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 where she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is only the beginning of her story. Spanning eight decades and four generations , Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, sacrifice, and survival .