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Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller

Autor Min Jin Lee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 ian 2020

Totul începe cu un refuz demn pe malul mării, la începutul secolului XX: tânăra Sunja, fiica unui pescar cu dizabilități, alege să nu fie „cumpărată” de amantul ei înstărit odată ce află că este însărcinată. Această scânteie de autonomie aprinde o saga monumentală care traversează opt decenii și patru generații, purtându-ne din Coreea ocupată până în Japonia prosperă, dar adesea ostilă. Pachinko nu este doar un titlu, ci o metaforă pentru viața însăși — un joc de noroc unde regulile sunt adesea măsluite împotriva celor străini, dar unde personajele continuă să „joace” cu o speranță fragilă. Găsim în această carte o rară profunzime a detaliului istoric, de la mirosul piețelor de stradă până la mecanismele subtile de supraviețuire ale imigranților coreeni prinși între două lumi. Stilul lui Min Jin Lee amintește de romanele victoriene prin complexitatea structurii, însă vocea sa rămâne profund ancorată în realitățile dure ale secolului XX. Dacă în volumul său anterior, Free Food for Millionaires, autoarea explora visul american prin ochii comunității coreene din New York, aici perspectiva se extinde asupra unei întregi istorii naționale de exil și adaptare. Forța narativă a lui Eugenia Kim în The Calligrapher's Daughter se întâlnește aici cu o viziune panoramică asupra destinului colectiv, dar Min Jin Lee aduce un plus de asprime și realism social. Apreciem modul în care personajele feminine, de o încăpățânare nobilă, devin pilonii unei familii care refuză să fie strivită de indiferența istoriei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781838930509
ISBN-10: 1838930507
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 128 x 192 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Pachinko cititorilor care caută o experiență imersivă într-o istorie mai puțin explorată în beletristica europeană. Este o carte despre reziliență și despre prețul integrării într-o cultură care te privește mereu ca pe un „outsider”. Veți câștiga o perspectivă emoționantă asupra modului în care deciziile unui singur strămoș modelează identitatea și norocul generațiilor ce îi urmează, totul într-o proză de o eleganță clasică.


Despre autor

Min Jin Lee este o voce proeminentă a literaturii contemporane, fiind finalistă la National Book Award și beneficiară a unor burse prestigioase de la Fundația Guggenheim și Institutul Radcliffe din cadrul Universității Harvard. Născută în Coreea de Sud și educată la Yale, Lee explorează cu minuțiozitate temele diasporei și ale identității culturale. Recunoscută pentru rigoarea documentării și sensibilitatea față de condiția imigrantului, ea a servit ca editor pentru „Best American Short Stories 2023” și a primit numeroase distincții literare, inclusiv Premiul Fitzgerald pentru Excelență Literară în 2024.


Recenzii

Luminous... a powerful meditation on what immigrants sacrifice to achieve a home in the world'
Gripping... a stunning achievement, full of heart, full of grace, full of truth'
A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the 20th century
A rich, moving novel about exile, identity and the determination to endure
Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing
The work of a writer in complete control of her characters and her story and with an intense awareness of the importance of her heritage... Told with such flair and linguistic dexterity that I found myself unable to put it down. Every year, there are a few standout novels that survive long past the hype has died down and the hyperbolic compliments from friends scattered across the dust jacket have been forgotten. Pachinko, a masterpiece of empathy, integrity and familial loyalty, will be one of those novels'
We never feel history being spoon-fed to us: it is wholly absorbed into character and story, which is no mean feat for a novel covering almost a century of history
An epic, multi-generational saga
A great book, a passionate story, a novel of magisterial sweep. It's also fiendishly readable - the real deal. An instant classic, a quick page-turner, and probably the best book of the year
A long, complex book, it wears its research lightly, and is a page-turner. You can sense the author's love and understanding for all the characters, the good and the flawed
Remarkable... A striking introduction to lives, to a world, [the reader] may never have seen, or even thought to look at. In our increasingly fractured and divisive times, there can be no higher purpose for literature: all in the pages of a book that, once you've started, you'll simply be unable to put down'
Elegant and soulful, both intimate and sweeping. This story of several generations of one Korean family in Japan is the story of every family whose parents sacrificed for their children, every family whose children were unable to recognize the cost, but it's also the story of a specific cultural struggle in a riveting time and place. Min Jin Lee has written a big, beautiful book filled with characters I rooted for and cared about and remembered after I'd read the final page
Both for those who love Korea, as well as for those who know no more than Hyundai, Samsung and kimchi, this extraordinary book will prove a revelation of joy and heartbreak. I could not stop turning the pages, and wished this most poignant of sagas would never end. Min Jin Lee displays a tenderness and wisdom ideally matched to an unforgettable tale that she relates just perfectly
A compassionate, clear gaze at the chaotic landscape of life itself. In this haunting epic tale, no one story seems too minor to be briefly illuminated. Lee suggests that behind the facades of wildly different people lie countless private desires, hopes and miseries, if we have the patience and compassion to look and listen
Love, luck, and talent combine with cruelty and random misfortune in a deeply compelling story, with the troubles of ethnic Koreans living in Japan never far from view. An old-fashioned epic whose simple, captivating storytelling delivers both wisdom and truth
[A] beautifully crafted story of love, loss determination, luck, and perseverance... Lee's skilful development of her characters and story lines will draw readers into the work. Those who enjoy historical fiction with strong characterisations will not be disappointed as they ride along on the emotional journeys offered in the author's latest page-turner'
An exquisite, haunting epic... Lee's profound novel of losses and gains explored through the social and cultural implications of pachinko-parlor owners and users is shaped by impeccable research, meticulous plotting, and empathic perception'
A sweeping, engrossing family saga... a poignantly told tale. Gracefully written and dotted with memorable images, evocative of the pace and time, it's a page-turning panorama of one family's path through suffering to prosperity in 20th-century Japan'
Stunning... Pachinko is about outsiders, minorities and the politically disenfranchised. But it is so much more besides. Each time the novel seems to find its locus - Japan's colonization of Korea, World War II as experienced in East Asia, Christianity, family, love, the changing role of women - it becomes something else. It becomes even more than it was'
Stunning... Pachinko is about outsiders, minorities and the politically disenfranchised. But it is so much more besides. Each time the novel seems to find its locus - Japan's colonization of Korea, World War II as experienced in East Asia, Christianity, family, love, the changing role of women - it becomes something else. It becomes even more than it was'

Caracteristici

MARKET: The Luminaries; Wild Swans; The Kite Runner.

Notă biografică

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a New York Times '100 Best Books of the Century.' Lee is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. From South Korea, Lee has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lee served as the Editor of Best American Short Stories 2023. Lee's essays and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Vogue, and The Times. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon, and a non-fiction work, Name Recognition.

Descriere scurtă

* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. 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.