pachinko (national book award finalist)  <b>a <i>new york times</i> top ten book of the year and national book award finalist, <i>pachinko</i> is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century japan (<i>san francisco chronicle</i>).<br /><br /><i> new york times</i> notable book of 2017 * a <i>usa today</i> top ten of 2017 * july pick for the <i>pbs newshour-new york times </i>book club <i>now read this </i>* finalist for the 2018<u></u>dayton literary peace prize* winner of the medici book club prize<br /><br /> roxane gay&apos;s favorite book of 2017, <i>washington post</i><br /><br /><i> new york times</i> bestseller * #1 <i>boston globe</i> bestseller * <i>usa today</i> bestseller * <i>wall street journal </i>bestseller * <i>washington post </i>bestseller</b><br /><br /><i> "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."</i><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&apos;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&apos;s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, lee&apos;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.<br /><br /><i>*includes reading group guide*</i><br />