Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Epic tale that spans a century and four generations of a Korean family. Pachinko explores how imperialism impacts a people, especially those forced to live in the land of the coloniser.

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Loved you review. Congrats!

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Love the name of your Channel! Great video! Congratulations

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Thank you!

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Just finished reading. I see myself in NOA, however my favorite character is Mozasu; he had “I’ll do it my way” attitude that I appreciated. I wonder if Hansu paid those boys to harass Sunja so that he could “rescue” her?

[@coffeebookshelves5919]

I wonder too. It's not beyond him and he doesn't seem like a man who waits for life to happen...

[@peacekeeperbabe]

Naw. Hansu works his opportunities sooo well it looks planned. I ❤ that interaction b/c if perfectly displays the problem of treating people differently; those children see that their parents have literally come to this country and taken what is not their theirs but it’s OK because somebody else said it was OK to do, they took their land. Why not take their women and it keeps on going on from there until eventually they run out of people outside of their culture to be shitty to so then they start being shitty to people within their culture/families.

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Great review. Subscribed. It is on my shelf, I think you just moved it up my TBR. I think one of the best things about books is the chance to see the world through others eyes. So obviously the world would be a better place with more readers.

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I hope you enjoy it once you get to it!

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Well said. Great review!

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Thank you!

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a masterpiece

[@TheExtraIntellectual]

Great review. I’m a mood reader & I am looking through my TBR pile trying to decide what to read next. I just finished The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. I’m still processing it. Then I read The House of Eve by Sadeqa Jonson which was a pallet cleaner after reading The Covenant of Water. I probably need something lighter for now but I will get to Pachinko soon!

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Your recent reads sound like great books! It's always hard trying to decide on a strategy for reducing the TBR pile. Meanwhile new books keep creeping in the door...

[@200lifetimes8]

I had to read this book for one of my university classes and absolutely loved it!

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Oh, which class? I can definitely see how it could be utilized across a range of disciplines.

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Keep it up!!

[@peacekeeperbabe]

Nope. Disagree about registration office interaction. While the system doesn’t grant Koreans (despite how many generations they’ve been in Japan) citizenship and therefore they must register at 16 yo; it is the clerk who gets to decide how will I treat this Korean today? It’s a crap shot. When Solomon‘s father registered; it was a normal interaction. When Solomon registers they’re told to wait (no reason given). The fact that they have a benched area away from the line, literally builds the discriminatory area right in the systematic building. But it’s up to each clerk if they’re going to use that power that day, which interaction?