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The Game of Life

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

April 17, 2022 by jeverett15 1 Comment

Born to hard-working Korean parents who run a boarding-house for fisherman, Sunja is expecting a hard life full of work and suffering until a chance encounter with a powerful businessman sets her life and her family’s fortunes on a far different trajectory as they embark on new lives in Japan. Through the following decades, which comprise most of the 20th century, Sunja, her sons, and the wider family that develops around them will go through all the vicissitudes of life while trying to stick together […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Min Jin Lee

jeverett15's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Min Jin Lee ·
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A Tale as old as Time

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

May 14, 2021 by Zirza 1 Comment

At the turn of the century, a cleft-lipped, clubfooted boarding house owner in rural Korea marries fifteen year old Yangjin, the third daughter of an impoverished farmer. She is no beauty, but neither is Hoonie, her husband. They’re a good match. Together, they run a boarding house in a small, seaside town on an idyllic but poor part of the Korean coast. They try to have children, and after their first three babies die their fourth, a daughter named Sunja, is born. Hoonie dotes upon […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 20th Century history, Japan, korea, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 20th Century history, Japan, korea, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko ·
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Immigrants–they get the job done

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

July 14, 2020 by Sophia Leave a Comment

Pachinko (2017) by Min Jin Lee is my second Cannonball Bingo entry. I am using Pachinko to fill the “Uncannon” entry–a book not written by an old, white man. Min Jin Lee is a woman who was born in South Korea before moving to the United States at age seven. Even better, her book is a four-generational story of Koreans living as immigrants in Japan before and after World War II. It certainly gave me a new perspective on the lives of people whose stories I previously knew nothing about. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

Sophia's CBR12 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr12bingo, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko ·
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CBRBingo – Far and Away. An epic that is truly epic.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

July 29, 2019 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

I have been waiting a loooooong while for this book to get into my eager hands. A work friend extolled its virtues and it is the September book club pick for one of the clubs I’m in AND I figured it would be good for any number of bingo squares. I went with Far and Away because both the geographical and cultural differences from where I’m sitting in the American Midwest to rural Korea in the 1900s are expansive. While I was reading it, I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Min Jin Lee, national book award finalist, Pachinko

ardaigle's CBR11 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Min Jin Lee, national book award finalist, Pachinko ·
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A Beautiful and Difficult Novel: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

June 29, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Pachinko – Min Jin Lee Finished on April 23, took 17 days to read 5 stars on Goodreads Genre: Historical Fiction Rating 2/3 Historical Fiction Pachinko is a beautiful and heart-breaking book. The plot extends over multiple decades of one woman’s life: Sunja. Sunja was born in Japanese-occupied Korea, but eventually marries and moves to Japan prior to the outbreak of World War Two. We follow Sunja and her family (four generations) all the way through the 1980s and their lives in Japan. I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, Japan, korea, Min Jin Lee, World War 2

Rachel's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, Japan, korea, Min Jin Lee, World War 2 ·
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When the Deck is Stacked Against You, Switch to Pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

June 4, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

I loved this book so much. I think it’s one of my favorites int he last couple years. It’s kind of a quiet story it’s about normal people living relatively normal lives, or at least normal for their situation, so it’s kind of a quite, slow meander of a book. There is no real climax or resolution to speak of, it’s a bit more circular in it’s plotting. This is the story of four generations in a Korean family that lived during the Japanese occupation […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, Min Jin Lee, Pachinko ·
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