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 a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story. If proof were needed that one family’s story can be the story of the whole world, then Pachinko offers that proof. Min Jin Lee’s novel is gripping from start to finish, crossing cultures and generations with breathtaking power. This novel is a deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan. Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing.