Pachinko

About “Pachinko”

A 2017 novel by Min Jin Lee. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, daughter of a crippled fisherman in Korea, falls for a wealthy stranger who promises her the world, but she refuses to be bought after learning she is pregnant and that he is married. She instead marries a gentle, sickly minister headed to Japan, a decision that sets off a saga echoing across generations of strong women, devoted sisters and sons, and fathers shaken by moral crisis.