This Book Will Be a Classic |

Описание: Book review: This will remind you of those you keep the light on for.

Picture this: you’re destitute. Your homeland is no longer the one you know, trampled over by oppressors who wouldn’t hesitate to crush your meager life. A single mistake made in naïveté has snuffed out your last hope. You feel like letting it all go.

But you don’t. You grit your teeth and forge on, not for your own sake, but for the sake of those you love and who love you.

Pachinko is not a story about extraordinariness. On the contrary, it’s about painful ordinariness. Ordinary yet fierce love. Plain yet unwavering resilience.

This book documents 4 generations of a working-class family’s struggle as they leave Korea, their impoverished homeland, in search of a fuller belly and sturdier roof in Japan.

Facing discrimination both from the Japanese and—heartbreakingly—from the Koreans already living in Japan, the family does everything they can to make the next day just a tiny bit brighter than the last.

As they face pitfall after pitfall, they are forced to confront the question: Are one’s principles too high a price to pay for survival?

This may be a story that began a hundred years ago, but in its twists and turns, you’ll find more of our world today than you’d ever imagine.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦This book is for savoring…
• when you want to dive head-first into a historic world
• if you love strong female characters
• if you enjoy epic family sagas with distinct, 3D characters
• when you’re ready for a well-structured narrative covering a long plot line

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