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      • For the most part, Min Jin Lee’s ‘ Pachinko ’ is a novel that beautifully exhibits a tremendous amount of true family love, loss, and the gumption for survival that it portrays in a four generational tale of a Korean family.
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  2. Feb 7, 2017 · Min Jin Lee. 4.34. 508,041 ratings49,463 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2017) In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea.

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  3. My conclusion is that something, if not the main thing, that really got to me is that the main characters in this book are all good people in some sense. Like they are all (including Hansu!) willing to put some serious effort into helping each other.

  4. Feb 2, 2017 · By Min Jin Lee. 490 pp. Grand Central Publishing. $27. Min Jin Lee’s stunning novel “Pachinko” — her second, after “Free Food for Millionaires” (2007) — announces its ambitions right from the...

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  5. Pachinko is the second novel by Harlem -based author and journalist Min Jin Lee. Published in 2017, Pachinko is an epic historical fiction novel following a Korean family who immigrates to Japan.

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    • Audiobook Review and Apple TV+ Adaptation
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    As much as I really enjoyed the book, I think there’s a few storylines that seemed incomplete or not really explored. Haruki being gay, for example, I think wasn’t given proper attention other than having his wife spot him performing a sex act, which seems like not a very complete or fair reflection of Haruki’s sexuality what it’s consequences. I a...

    Some quick notes. The audiobook is quite good. I definitely recommend it, the woman narrating does a great job. Also, there’s an adaptation of it coming soon to Apple TV+. For all the details, see Everything We Know about the Pachinko Apple TV+ Series.

    Pachinko is a powerful book that interwines the story about the fate of a family against the backdrop of history in a way that is informative and engrossing. The Japanese invasion of Korea and the treatment of Koreans in Japan is also an often neglected history outside of Asia and is well-worth exploring and discussing, due to the important lessons...

  6. Feb 7, 2017 · Pachinko, the sophomore novel by the gifted Korean-born Min Jin Lee, is the kind of book that can open your eyes and fill them with tears at the same time.

  7. Feb 7, 2017 · Min Jin Lee’s ‘Pachinko’ is without a doubt a good read and this has been proven by the number of high-profile reviews it’s gotten from top publications and personalities, such as Barack Obama.