From national bestselling author Min Jin Lee comes her latest novel, Pachinko, a page-turning saga which follows four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fighting to control their destiny.
The story takes place in 20th-century Japan while exiled from a home they never knew. Min will discuss her new book at a book talk, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing, at Fiction Addiction on Monday, February 5th, at 3:00 pm.
Tickets for this event are $16.95, admit one, and include a copy of Pachinko. Tickets and books can be purchased online, at the store, or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.
“There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.”
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters-strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.