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In ‘Pachinko’, a Record of Forgotten Lives

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In ‘Pachinko’, a Record of Forgotten Lives
Article
https://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/news/pachinko-record-forgotten-lives-2001389
Journal
The Daily Star
Issued Date
November 26, 2020
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
파친코
Writer
Lee Min Jin
Translator
LEE Mee-jeong

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  • 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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Even in the most extraordinary of political times, someone must tend to the crops. Someone must weave clothes for the winter. These everyday tasks fall not to the revolutionaries who earn our tributes but to ordinary folk persevering through wars and famines without recognition. History, says Min Jin Lee in the opening line of Pachinko, has failed them. 

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