TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee, Min Jin
TI  - Pachinko
SN  - 9781838930509
U1  - 813.6 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - UK
PB  - Head Zeus
KW  - Unmarried mothers
KW  - Korean families
KW  - Spouses of clergy
KW  - Manners and customs--Japan
KW  - Manners and customs--Korea
N2  - 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.

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.

Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival
ER  -