Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Yeongdo, Korea 1911. A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Physical & emotional abuse
  • Suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Starvation
  • Death of a parent
  • Colonialism
  • Korean War & World War two