Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist** A New York Times Bestseller ** Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club **Selected for The Queen's Reading Room*'This is a captivating book...Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success.It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza.He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant - and that her lover is married - she refuses to be bought.Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan.Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices.Her decisions will echo through the decades. Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pa