P'ach'ink'o
(Book)

880-04,"National Book Award, Chŏnmi Tosŏsang Ch'oejong Hubojak"--Cover.

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.,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. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.

In Korean; translated from English.