Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee 'This is a captivating book ... It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.Yeongdo, Korea 1911. Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations…
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Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
'This is a captivating book ... It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.Yeongdo, Korea 1911. Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success.
The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. 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.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky anglickyPočet strán 551Dátum uvedenia titulu 2020-01-09Rozmery 198x128x35Hmotnosť 384gTypPaperback