A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.

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.

Pachinko is a New York Times Bestseller and Top Ten Book of the Year; National Book Award finalist; USA Today Top Ten of 2017; a PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Now Read This pick; finalist for the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize; winner of the Medici Book Club Prize; Roxane Gay’s Favorite Book Of 2017, Washington Post; Boston Globe, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post Bestseller.

Website: minjinlee.com