u003cbu003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A Nu003ciu003eEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWu003c/iu003e TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A u003ciu003eUSA TODAYu003c/iu003e TOP TEN OF 2017 * u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eJULY PICK FOR THE u003ciu003ePBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BOOK CLUB u003ciu003eNOW READ THISu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eRoxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, u003ciu003eWashington Postu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003ciu003eu003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003ciu003e * #1 BOSTON GLOBE u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003ciu003e * USA TODAY u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eIn this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e"There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."u003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eRichly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003e*Includes reading group guideu003c/iu003e*u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e