
Shortlisted for the National Book Award One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 Yeongdo 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 Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends no home & whose language she cannot speak Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story Through eight decades & four generations Pachinko is an epic tale of family identity love death & survival