![]() ![]() She says, “‘Fair’ seems like a simple word, but I think because my subject matter is so troubling and controversial, I wanted my narrator to be as objective as possible” (494). At the end of the book, Lee discusses her reasoning behind this. Lee writes from a distant, omniscient point of view. While extremely detailed, Pachinko is written matter-of-factly, with no flowery descriptions. I really enjoyed learning about the history and culture of Korea, and I could really go for some Korean or Japanese food right about now! Her characters deal with the dysphoria that they feel as Koreans living in Japan, as well as discrimination. The book especially focuses on what it means to be Korean during a time when the country is taken over by the Japanese and then later split into two. She covers the historical and political aspects of each time period. The amount of detail Lee manages to pack into this book is astounding. ![]() So instead, she accepts a generous offer of marriage from Isak, a sickly Protestant preacher. When Sunja becomes pregnant, she finds out that the businessman is already married. The story opens with Sunja, a Korean peasant, who meets a wealthy businessman and forms a relationship with him. ![]() Pachinko covers four generations of the same family, from the early 1900’s to the 80’s. It feels like three different books, because really, it is. ![]()
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