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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Start date: August 1, 2020

Finish date: August 31, 2020

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Jun 02, 2019 Keyona rated it really liked it

I love a good family saga and this didn't disappoint. This book spans 3 generations of a Korean family. It goes into how Koreans were oppressed in Japan and the resilience of the women in this family to survive. This book is quite long but it moved very quickly. We were mostly following Sunja who gets pregnant by a married man pretty early on in the book. Another man agrees to marry her help her raise her son and the story continues from there. The list of characters in this book are pretty fles ...more

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Aug 26, 2019 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, japan, korea

This book has been on my radar since its publication but I've never added it to my tbr because I know it'll make me sad... Not even after all the rave reviews and friends' high rec. However, it was available in audio so I thought I'd give it a go.

It did make me sad. Not in a heartbreaking sob-my-heart-out way but more in a life-is-hard way. As it's repeated in the novel, you'll just have to bear up and persevere. This just depresses me and of course, it affected my mood terribly so I'm very very ...more

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May 24, 2022 Andreea rated it liked it

I will say the thing I hate the most to see in reviews, but this book was just not for me.

The historical parts were great and it's overall a pretty good book, but we just didn't vibe. It did not offer me anything (apart from a minor reading slump).🙈 ...more

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