* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times
Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared
Shelf book club * '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. 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 tale of family identity love death and survival.
