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020			_a9781838930509
040			_ctshering
100			_aLee, Min Jin.
245			_aPachinko /
260			_aUK : _bHead of Zeus, _c2020.
300			_aFIC LEE _c20 cm
520			_aA Vctorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 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
650			_a 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
650			_aDomestic fiction
942			_2ddc _cFIC
999			_c17478 _d17478