Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora

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Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora

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Article: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/02/min-jin-lee-on-her-new-novel-and-writing-about-the-korean-diaspora
Journal: Harvard Magazine
Issued Date: February 13, 2019
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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)

Author Min Jin Lee, a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute, is best known for her epic novel Pachinko (2017). The story follows a Korean family from the nineteenth century through the 1980s, spanning Japan’s annexation of Korea, the central character Sunja’s migration to Japan and survival of World War II, and Japan’s rise as a wealthy consumer society. For many Americans, the novel was their first introduction to life in Korea under Japanese rule and to the social identity of Koreans in Japan, many of whom could not become Japanese citizens even after their families had lived there for generations.

Translated Books41 See More

Korean(한국어) Book Available
파친코
Lee Min Jin et al / 이민진 / 2018
English(English) Book Available
Free Food for Millionaires
Lee Min Jin et al / 이민진 / 2017
Italian(Italiano) Book Available
La moglie coreana
Lee Min Jin / 이민진 / 2018