6/2/2023 0 Comments Pachinko reviews book![]() ![]() Their only surviving child is a daughter, who grows up against this background of foreign intimidation. There’s a boy from a fishing village with a club foot who has an arranged marriage to a sweet girl. It begins shortly after 1910, when the Japanese annexed Korea and suppressed the culture and language, burning books and dismantling history. Pachinko tells the life of three generations of Koreans and their struggle, not only to survive, but to keep their cultural alive. This is hard to do across a cultural divide but in this epic story, Min Jin Lee gives us full immersion. ![]() A story has to make normal to us what may seem strange, and to explain the world enough so the reader understands the observations without the narrator being too “telly”. Pachinko does exactly what a good book should it takes you somewhere else and shows you the world through different eyes. ![]()
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