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'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee answers your questions
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- July 30, 2018
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Pachinko
'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion'... -
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パチンコ
全米図書賞、最終候補作。 四世代にわたる在日コリアン一家の苦闘を描いて全世界で共感を呼んだ大作、ついに日本版刊行成る! 日本に併合された朝鮮半島、釜山沖の影島。下宿屋を営む夫婦の娘として生まれたキム・ソンジャが出会ったのは、日本との貿易を生業とするハンスという男だった。見知らぬ都会の匂いのするハンスと恋に落ち、やがて身ごもったソンジャは、ハンスには日本に妻子がいいることを知らされる。... -
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ΠΑΤΣΙΝΚΟ
ΓΙΟΝΓΚΝΤΟ, ΚΟΡΕΑ, 1911. Σε ένα μικρό ψαροχώρι στην ακτή της Ανατολικής θάλασσας, ένας ψαράς παντρεύεται ένα δεκαπεντάχρονο κορίτσι. Το φτωχό ζευγάρι φέρνει στον κόσμο μια κόρη, την πολύτιμή τους... -
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Ein einfaches Leben
Der Bestseller aus den USA Sunja und ihre Söhne leben als koreanische Einwanderer in Japan wie Menschen zweiter Klasse. Während Sunja versucht, sich abzufinden, fordern Noa und Mozasu ihr Schicksal... -
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La moglie coreana
«Potevano esserci solo pochi vincitori, accanto a molti perdenti. Eppure noi continuavamo a giocare.» Corea, anni Trenta. Quando Sunja sale sul battello che la porterà a Osaka, in Giappone, verso una...
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PachinkoMin Jin Lee
/2018* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for... -
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[Audio Book] Free Food for Millionaires
/2020In this One Book, One New York 2019 nominee from the author of National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle. Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a... -
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Ein einfaches Leben: Roman
/2018»Eine überwältigende Geschichte über Widerstandsfähigkeit und Mitgefühl.« Barack Obama Sunja und ihre Söhne leben als koreanische Einwanderer in Japan wie Menschen zweiter Klasse. Während Sunja versucht, sich abzufinden, fordern Noa und Mozasu ihr Schicksal heraus. Der eine schafft es an die besten... -
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[Audio Book] Ein einfaches Leben
/2018Ein Epos über Liebe, Opfer, Ambition und Loyalität, umwerfend erzählt und zutiefst ergreifend Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts erliegt die jugendliche Sunja, geliebte Tochter eines koreanischen Fischers, dem Charme eines reichen Fremden. Er verspricht ihr die Welt, aber sie lässt sich nicht kaufen; als... -
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Marilyn and MeJi-min Lee
/2019'A beautifully woven page turner' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz A gripping and heartwrenching novel of damage and survival, grief and unexpected solace, Marilyn and Me is a fascinating – and timely – insight into an extraordinary time and place How do you translate the... -
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Free Food for MillionairesMin Jin Lee
/2007NPR Fresh Air Top Ten Books of the Year USA Today Top Ten Books of the Year The Times (London) Top Ten Books of the Year The nationally bestselling, "ambitious and compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) American story of class, society and identity. The daughter of Korean immigrants,... -
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PachinkoMin Jin Lee
/2017November 21, 2016 Lee’s ( Free Food for Millionaires ) latest novel is a sprawling and immersive historical work that tells the tale of one Korean family’s search for belonging, exploring questions of history, legacy, and identity across four generations. In the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1910s...
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An undiscovered library: My wife’s books
/July 10, 2020It was early April, and I needed a good book to read. Libraries and bookstores had gone dark. So I did the unthinkable: I turned to my own bookshelves. My bookshelves always get me down. Yes, they contain old favorites, but interspersed among them are books I got as gifts but whose spines I’ve... -
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“Pachinko” and “Crazy Rich Asians” Were Top Library Checkouts on the LES in 2019
/December 18, 2019At this time each year, the New York Public Library shares the top checkouts systemwide and in branch locations across the city. Let’s take a look at what people on the Lower East Side wanted to read in 2019.(..) -
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Our critics' favorite Japanese books of the decade
As 2020 approaches, The Japan Times’ book reviewers look back at a decade of literature and their favorite and most impactful books written about Japan or by Japanese writers. -
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Singapore Writers Festival: Pachinko author Min Jin Lee wants to know all about Singapore's tuition centres
SINGAPORE - Korean-American novelist Min Jin Lee has two things she wants to do in Singapore: eat laksa and research tuition centres. Lee, who turns 51 this year, is examining attitudes towards education around the world for her third novel, American Hagwon. A hagwon is the Korean term for a... -
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RECENZE: Bez práce nejsou koláče. Jedině tak může korejská rodina žít důstojně
RECENZE - Román Pačinko je jímavou sondou do života rodiny chudých Korejců , kteří v první polovině 20. století zavítali do Japonska. Jejich existence je v nové zemi ohrožena společenskými a politickými rozdíly. Kniha je mimo jiné finalistou ceny The National Book Award a bestsellerem The New York...
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2010 제3회 세계작가축제 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2010
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2010 Seoul International Writers' Festival Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2010