PACHINKO

 

“ 𝚆𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚢"

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Book : Pachinko 

Author: Lee Min jin

My Ratings: ️️️️.8/5

Favourite Character: Sunja

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𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 : 

A lot of people won't be interested in this book because they have no idea what pachinko means and what exactly is going on. But believe me, this book is really good.

This is a historical family story set in Korea and Japan throughout the 20th century. It follows four generations of a Korean family through the political turmoil of Japanese colonization, the hardship of wartime, seeking a new and better life in Japan, and witnessing the home they left become divided into two countries they hardly recognize.

As someone who knows very little about Korean history, this book was absolutely fascinating.

Pachinko, we soon find out, is a kind of Japanese arcade game, and working in a pachinko parlor was considered a typical job for a Korean looking to get some money. Many Japanese looked down upon pachinko parlor workers, viewing them as shady and dishonest.

It was both interesting and deeply saddening to hear about what these people went through, how easy it was for Koreans to be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. And after years of hardship and discrimination, after pushing through and finally earning enough money to have stability, many could never go back.

The fictional characters the author creates come sparking off the page from the resilient Sunja who once foolishly believed in the love of an older man, to Noa who will never quite recover from the dishonor of his lineage, to Solomon who is still trying to escape the negative stereotypes associated with Koreans many years after his grandmother arrived in Japan.

Have you seen the live action Tv series of Pachinko starring Lee Min Ho (My fav korean actor), Acedamy award winner Yuon Yuh jung, Kim Min Ha and Jin Ha? That was so good and I binged watch the series. 

Thank you so much for giving such a great historical drama. The scenes while I reading the books was just like in the series even if there's not a great detail just in book. The fish market, the plight of farmers and their families, the small scale businesses that struggled to survive during war and yeah Koh Hansu indeed!

If you want to get a glimpse of the era of korean-japan revolution, just read this book and watch the sereis. 

And another thing is Lee Min Jin was a new author to me but She's a wonderfully talented author who's words can swept us away.So if you wanna get more of her works, or basically about her you can tune up the podcast station named https://talkeasypod.com. You can visit there Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/talkeasypod/ to know more details.

On 19th March, Sunday, they  released a special conversation with novelist Min Jin Lee. In it, she walks through her journey from Seoul to New York City, her path to writing Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, and the central theme of her unreleased third novel, American Hog-won.