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* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist *
* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *
* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
'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.
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, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's
salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of
family, identity, love, death and survival.
The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling
author of Pachinko. 'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy
to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMES Casey
Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an
enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in
economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants,
Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents.
But she has no job, and a number of bad habits. So when a chance
encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's
determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of
privilege, power, and wealth - but at what cost? As Casey navigates
an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a
clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful
backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides.
Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for
Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging
to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.
'Explores the most funadmental crisis of immigrants' children: how
to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans.'
Observer 'A remarkable writer.' The Times
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by
National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi
Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book
Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories
out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form
published the previous year.Â
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The Great Gatsby (Hardcover)
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Min Jin Lee
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