One of the most surprising things I’ve learned this year of reading more Asian books is the impact that Japan’s imperialism had in East Asia. Pachinko is the third book I read in which this is a central element.

In Min Jin Lee’s best-seller book, we follow 4 generations of Koreans in their search for belonging. It all starts in the 1910s in a small village near Busan, in what is now South Korea. Yangjin is a hard-working woman who makes a living managing a lodging house with her husband Hoonie and her daughter Sunja. During that time, Japan annexed Korea, and many of the area’s residents were caught in the economic downfall that followed.

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