Pachinko
  • Published:
    Feb-2017 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2017 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    20th Century
  • Pages:
    512
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In this bestselling, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.

"There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."

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. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from 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.

Richly 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, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
Sub-Genres
People / Creatures
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EDITIONS
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    • Nov-2017
    • Grand Central
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1455563927
    • ISBN13: 9781455563920
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    • Grand Central
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0594075599
    • ISBN13: 9780594075592
    •  
    • Aug-2017
    • Head of Zeus
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 178669137X
    • ISBN13: 9781786691378
    •  
    • Jan-2020
    • Head of Zeus
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1838930507
    • ISBN13: 9781838930509
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2017
    • Grand Central
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1455563935
    • ISBN13: 9781455563937
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Grand Central Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Grand Central
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1455563919
    • ISBN13: 9781455563913
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Grand Central
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478967439
    • ISBN13: 9781478967439
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Little, Brown
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478945486
    • ISBN13: 9781478945482
    •  
    • Mar-2017
    • Hachette Audio
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1478976357
    • ISBN13: 9781478976356
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Feb-2019
    • Whole Story Audiobooks
    • Audible
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Grand Central
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1455569496
    • ISBN13: 9781455569496
    • Large Print



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