But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant–and that her lover is married–she refuses to be bought.
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea.
I was astonished to learn about the immigration history and challenges from the 1930s through late 1980s. All I previously knew was Japan’s role in WWII and the divide of North and South Korea. The multi-generation stories in Pachinko left me wanting to learn more about Asian history. As I have reflected on my reading life, I have noticed how little of Asian literature I have read.
One of my first true Read Around The World selections took me through Korea and Japan.
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