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1) Pachinko
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English
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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English
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Uprooted from her life in New York City and relocated to her father's villa in Seoul, sixteen-year-old Melody soon discovers the alluring aspects of living in Korea as well as family secrets as she struggles to reconcile her identity in a place she is expected to call home.
Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, Melody is shocked to learn that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York City to join her father in...
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English
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"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
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Korean
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A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 1 of 2.
6) Pachinko
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Polish
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"Głęboko poruszająca i napisana z wdziękiem powieść śledzi losy koreańskiej rodziny na przestrzeni pokoleń, poczynając od początku XX wieku. Sunja, dziewczyna z biednej, ale dumnej rodziny, zachodzi w nieplanowaną ciążę, co może okryć jej bliskich hańbą. Odepchnięta przez zamożnego kochanka znajduje ratunek w ramionach młodego ministra, który oferuje jej małżeństwo i nowe życie w Japonii. Tak zaczyna się wciągająca saga...
7) Bai qing ge
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中文(繁體)
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
Author
Language
Korean
Description
A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 2 of 2.
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