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1) Pachinko
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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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"Now in translation for the first time, the award-winning debut that broke literary ground in Japan explores diaspora, prejudice, and the complexities of a teen girl's experience growing up as a Zainichi Korean, reminiscent of Min Jin Lee's classic Pachinko and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street." --
Inspired by a mysterious message, seventeen-year-old Ginny Park sets off to find herself as she reflects on her experiences of growing up Zainichi,...
3) Go
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English
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A Korean student living in Japan struggles with his ancestry especially with Sakurai, a Japanese girl he has fallen in love with.
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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.
5) 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...
6) Bai qing ge
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中文(繁體)
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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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"It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents' daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above...The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. When they...
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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 2 of 2.
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