In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.

“There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.”

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnantand that her lover is married–she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.

Richly told and profoundly moving,Pachinkois a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate charactersstrong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisissurvive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.

Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novelPachinko(2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of theNew York Times‘ “Ten Best Books of 2017.” ANew York Timesbestseller,Pachinkowas also one of the “Ten Best Books” of the year for BBC and the New York Public Library, and a “best international fiction” pick for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In total, it was on over seventy-five best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN, and it was a selection for Now Read This,the joint book club ofPBS NewsHourand theNew York Times.Pachinkowill be translated into twenty-seven languages. Lee’s debut novelFree Food for Millionaires(2007) was one of the best books of the year for theTimesof London, NPR’sFresh Air, andUSA Today, and it was a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in theNew Yorker, NPR’sSelected Shorts,One Story,theNew York Review of Books,theNew York Times Magazine,theNew York Times Book Review,theTimes Literary Supplement,theGuardian, CondNast Traveler,theTimesof London,andtheWall Street Journal.Lee served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of theChosun Ilboof South Korea. In 2018, she was named as one of Adweek’s Creative 100 for being one of the “ten writers and editors who are changing the national conversation,” and one of theGuardian‘s Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.

• Item Weight:1.59 pounds
• Hardcover:496 pages
• ISBN-10:1455563935
• ISBN-13:9781455563937
• Product Dimensions:6.75 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches
• Publisher:Grand Central Publishing (February 7, 2017)
• Language:English