{"product_id":"pachinko-the-new-york-times-bestseller","title":"Pachinko, Min Jin Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003eA victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* The million-copy bestseller*\u003cbr\u003e* National Book Award finalist *\u003cbr\u003e* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *\u003cbr\u003e* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' BARACK OBAMA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43183185559689,"sku":"9781838930509","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9781838930509.jpg?v=1733369230","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/pachinko-the-new-york-times-bestseller","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}