The release date for the English version of 'Pachinko' by
Min Jin Lee is Feb 2017. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Adolescent Sunja, the beloved daughter of a disabled fisherman, falls in love with a rich stranger on a Korean beach in the early 1900s. He makes her the most extravagant promises, but she refuses to be bought when she finds out she is pregnant and her boyfriend is married. Rather, she agrees to marry a kind but ill pastor who is stopping around before heading to Japan. However, her choice to leave her house and turn away from her son's strong father starts a dramatic story that will be told for many years.
Pachinko is a very poignant tale of love, sacrifice, ambition, and devotion that is masterfully narrated. In the face of history's indifferent arc, Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive in a variety of settings, from bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's best universities to the pachinko parlours of the criminal underworld.