Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

The New York Times Bestseller

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National Book Award Finalist 2017Yeongdo, Korea 1911.In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, 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 Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78669-137-8
EAN: 9781786691378
Produktnummer: 22029699
Verlag: Head of Zeus
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 560 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.5 cm 380 g
Gewicht: 380

Über den Autor

Min Jin Lee is the bestselling author of two novels. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a New York Times bestseller and was included on over 75 best books of the year lists. It is currently being adapted for television by Apple TV. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times, NPR's Fresh Air and USA Today. Min Jin Lee's writings have appeared in The New Yorker, the TLS, the Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others. In 2019, Lee was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame. She serves as a trustee of PEN America, a director of the Authors Guild and on the National Advisory Board of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard.