Min Jin Lee Pachinko 2020 Head Of Zeus 2020

Synopsis

<p><b>* The million-copy bestseller*<br> * National Book Award finalist *<br> *</b> <b>An instant <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017</b> <b>*<br> * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *</b><br> <br> '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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Through eight decades and four generations, <i>Pachinko</i> is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.</p>