Pachinko novel5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Min Jin Lee writes that Korea’s “incompetent aristocrats and corrupt rulers had lost their nation to thieves” Hoonie marries Yangjin and they go on to have a daughter names Sunja. However, this boy had a “thoughtful temperament” and “large, smiling eyes” They have three sons but only Hoonie, who was born with a cleft palate and twisted foot survives. ![]() An elderly fisherman and his wife take in lodgers to earn money. Book 1- Gohyang/Hometown (1910-1933) starts in a small five mile wide fishing village of Yeongdo, beside the port city of Busan in Korea. She moved to Osaka in 2007 and did extensive research firsthand to finally get this novel published in 2017. The story stayed with her and simmered within her for years. The boy jumped off a building and died and Lee could not forget that incident. Lee heard the true story of a middle school boy who was bullied because of his Korean ethnicity. An American missionary talked about the term “Zainichi” which literally means “foreign resident staying in Japan” but is often used as a derogatory word for Korean immigrants. The novel was inspired by a guest lecture Lee attended at Yale in 1989. ![]()
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