Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature

Pachinko, By: Min Jin Lee Narrated by: Allison Hiroto Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins Unabridged Release date: 02-07-17 Language: English Publisher: Hachette Audio Rating: 4.3/5 (384 ratings) Format: M4B, Publishers Summary:, A new tour de force from the best-selling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for fans of A Fine Balance and Cutting for Stone., Profoundly moving and gracefully told, 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. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life., So begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan, Sunjas family members endure harsh discrimination, catastrophes, and poverty, yet they also encounte