Can I read Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) on EtoBox?

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by Min Jin Lee is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) about?

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). "There could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlours of the criminal underworld, Min Jin Lee's complex and passionate characters - strong, stub

Who reads Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)?

Author

Min Jin Lee

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781455563913

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14