Pachinko

A&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist,&nbsp;Pachinko&nbsp;is an &quot;extraordinary epic&quot; of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle).<br /><br />NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A&nbsp;USA TODAY&nbsp;TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE&nbsp;PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;BOOK CLUB&nbsp;NOW READ THIS&nbsp;* FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE<br /><br />Roxane Gay&#39;s Favorite Book of 2017,&nbsp;Washington Post<br /><br />NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;BESTSELLER * #1&nbsp;BOSTON GLOBE&nbsp;BESTSELLER *&nbsp;USA TODAY&nbsp;BESTSELLER *&nbsp;WALL STREET JOURNAL&nbsp;BESTSELLER *&nbsp;WASHINGTON POST&nbsp;BESTSELLER<br /><br />&quot;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.&quot;<br /><br />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&#39;s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.<br /><br />Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan&#39;s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee&#39;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.