Pachinko: by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko: by Min Jin Lee After quite a break from blogging, I decided to restart with my review of books that I have read in recent past. Pachinko was the most recent book that I have read, and before picking up my next one, I just could not restrain myself from writing a bit about this 'masterpiece'. I was astounded by the comment from Barack Obama on the cover of this book and it reads: “ a powerful story about resilience and compassion” and this really made me pick this book. All these words stand true to the core qua the story. I read this 500 (and odd) pages book in a weeks’ time. You just cannot put it down. The storyline is weaved starting from the year 1910 (Busan, Korea) and up till 1989 (Tokyo). It orbited around a beautiful girl, a lady, a mother, a grandmother ‘Sunja’ and is all about her birth, love, struggle, separation, tears, death and survival against all odds. A real narrative of Koreans in war-torn Japan and Korea and speaks at length abou