Min Jin Lee
Auteur de Pachinko
A propos de l'auteur
Min Jin Lee's debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the "Top 10 Novels of the Year" for The Times (London), NPR's Fresh Air, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Nast Traveler, The Times (London), Vogue, afficher plus Travel+Leisure, Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family. afficher moins
Crédit image: Min Jin Lee at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72309976
Œuvres de Min Jin Lee
American Hagwon 2 exemplaires
Free Food for Millioners 1 exemplaire
Gratisessen für Millionäre 1 exemplaire
Best American Short Stories 2023 1 exemplaire
La Famille Han 1 exemplaire
Povestea lui Casey Han 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single… (2009) — Contributeur — 111 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Lee, Min Jin
- Autres noms
- 이민진
Yi Minjin - Date de naissance
- 1968
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
South Korea (birth) - Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Seoul, South Korea
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan - Études
- Yale University
Georgetown University Law Center
Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York, USA - Professions
- writer
lawyer (corporate)
lecturer - Prix et distinctions
- Narrative Prize
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Titoli bestiali (1)
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 7,798
- Popularité
- #3,124
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 340
- ISBN
- 102
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 2
set in Korea and Japan spanning the years of 1910-1989, written by award-winning Korean author Min Jin Lee. The story begins in Yeongdo, Busan, in what is now South Korea in 1910, with Sunja Kim the daughter of crippled Hoonie and his wife Yangjin who work hard to run a guest house. When Sunja falls pregnant to a powerful businessman and discovers he is already married, her life seems doomed. One of the guests, Christian minister Pastor Isak, steps in and offers to marry Sunja and take her to Osaka where he is to be posted. The story follows the lives of Isak and Sunja, and his brother Joseph and wife Kyunghee in Japan where they experience the prejudice and hardships faced by the Koreans under Japanese rule (1910-1945). Isak and Sunja go on to have two sons, the studious Noa and easy-going Mosazu who works his way up to wealth by establishing a series of Pachinko parlours. Pachinko is an arcade type game with pins and steel balls, a popular form of legal gambling in Japan.
Pachinko is an epic saga following four generations of the family's fortunes and misfortunes. It is an engrossing tale, simply written but revealing and descriptive. My only complaint is it could have been significantly shorter as my attention drifted terribly in the final quarter.… (plus d'informations)