Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
\nThere coul d only be a few winners\, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on\, beca use we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."In the early 1900s\, teen aged Sunja\, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman\, falls for a wea lthy 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 marri ed-she refuses to be bought. Instead\, she accepts an offer of marriage fr om a gentle\, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home\, and to reject her son's powerful father\, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Rich ly 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 parlors of the criminal underworld\ , Lee's complex and passionate characters-strong\, stubborn women\, devote d sisters and sons\, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive aga inst the indifferent arc of history.
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