Pachinko, Deluxe PB Ed.

History is seldom kind. In Min Jin Lee`s acclaimed and magisterial novel, four generations of a poor, proud immigrant family fight to control their destinies while exiled from their homeland. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to bend to his will. Instead she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home and reject her son`s powerful father sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of one of Japan`s finest universities to pachinko parlors and the criminal underworld, Lee`s complex and passionate characters-resilient, fierce women, devoted sisters, bright sons, fathers shaken by moral crises-survive and flourish against the indifferent arc of history.