Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) - Paperback

Min Jin Lee's National Book Award finalist: four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from 1910 to 1989. About identity, sacrifice, and building a life in a country that will never fully accept you.

This novel traces a family across the century of Japanese occupation. It's an epic scope with intimate detail. Lee writes about what it costs to survive, what survival requires, and what gets lost and preserved. The prose is beautiful and clear. The characters are unforgettable. This is one of the great contemporary American novels.

Literature faculty, Asian American studies, and world history all assign this. It's the book people return to and find new things in.

DETAILS
- Author: Min Jin Lee
- Paperback
- National Book Award finalist
- Fiction, history, Asian American literature