num_pages: 496
description: 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.
language: English
title: Pachinko
publisher: Grand Central Publishing