As she goes from her mother’s boarding house in Korea to her new home in Japan, she is forced to depend on her independence and crafts a business of her own. Reader’s instantaneously make a bond to Sunja’s character, and for many femme readers, sympathy is shared and abundant. For instance, we quite literally watch Sunja grow from an infant into adulthood, and old age. The beauty of the novel lies in the characters’ intricacies. Both politics and warfare exacerbate the economic predisposition of her family and take a toll on the wellbeing of multiple characters. The turbulent tale follows Sunja and her family amid the political chaos, as Korea is held under Japan’s rule. After a woman named Sunja is impregnated, she must leave her home in Yeongdo, Busan and start a new life in Osaka. Pachinko written by Min Jin Lee traces four generations of a family, between 1910 to 1989, from Korea to Japan.
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