PACHINKO

The million-copy bestsellerNational Book Award finalistOne of the New York Timess 10 Best Books of 2017Selected for Emma Watsons Our Shared Shelf book clubThis is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lees novel takes us through four generations and each characters search for identity and success. Its 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, Sunjas 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.