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Bloomsbury presents Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, read. by Allison Hiroto.

* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist *
* An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 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 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.

©2017 Min Jin Lee (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
20th Century Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction United States World Literature Marriage
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Story Telling like Ive never heard before! The Characters shines through with the back drop of history. As a person who knows nothing about Japanese and Korean hiatory. Im fascinated and want to know more!

Astounding. Im sure Ill listen to this another 3 times!

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Read beautifully and touching emotional story.Lovely insight to life for Koreans living in Japan.Enjoyed listening.

Beautiful Read

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