Pachinko

Dua’s Monthly Read for July 2023

“I could not put Pachinko by Min Jin Lee down… it’s quite long, but I promise you will race through it. It’s a sweeping saga set in Korea and Japan that follows the fortunes of a Korean family across four generations and eight decades. It’s a story of the search for identity in a hostile country, of what immigrant parents sacrifice for their children, and of the choices women must make in a man’s world.

“Along the way, I learned so much about the annexation of Korea and early 20th-century Japanese colonialism. If that makes it sound like a heavy lift – don’t worry, it’s not. I was totally absorbed by the characters and, in fact, it’s so readable it will leave you wanting more” – Dua Lipa

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