Book
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Pachinko
Call Number
- FICTION LEE (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Physical Description
490 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity"--