Home but Not Home: Four Generations of an Ethnic Korean Family in Japan

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Home but Not Home: Four Generations of an Ethnic Korean Family in Japan

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Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/books/review/pachinko-min-jin-lee.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0
Journal: New York Times
Issued Date: February 02, 2017
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: New York
Book: 파친코
Writer: Lee Min Jin
Translator: LEE Mee-jeong

About the Author

Lee Min Jin
Birth : 1968 ~ -
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Min Jin
Family Name : Lee
Korean Name : 이민진
ISNI : 0000000047748236
Works : 41

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English(English)

“Pachinko” chronicles four generations of an ethnic Korean family, first in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 20th century, then in Japan itself from the years before World War II to the late 1980s. The novel opens with an arranged marriage in Yeongdo, a fishing village at the southern tip of Korea. That union produces a daughter, Sunja, who falls in love at 16 with a prominent (and married) mobster. After Sunja becomes pregnant, a local pastor offers her a chance to escape by marrying him and immigrating together to his brother’s house in an ethnic Korean neighborhood in Osaka. Together, they embark into the fraught unknown.

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파친코
Lee Min Jin et al / 이민진 / 2018
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La moglie coreana
Lee Min Jin / 이민진 / 2018