Новинки Мин Чжин Ли

Casey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. But she has no job, and a number of bad habits. So when a chance encounter with an old friend lands her…

Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his…

Début des années 1920, dans un petit village coréen, la jeune Sunja se laisse séduire par un riche étranger. Lorsqu'elle tombe enceinte et apprend que son amant est déjà marié au Japon, elle refuse la solution qu'il lui propose : devenir son épouse coréenne. Ce refus est le point de départ d'un exil qui s'étendra sur quatre générations. Pour éviter la ruine et le déshonneur à sa famille, Sunja épouse Isak, un pasteur chrétien qu'elle connaît à peine et qui lui propose une nouvelle vie au Japon. S'étendant sur huit décennies et quatre générations, découvrez le récit épique d'une famille rejetée par deux pays, aux prises avec l'histoire et secouée par des questions d'identité, d'amour, de mort et de survie.

Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the meaning of patriarchy and the cost of female silence through the eyes of a dutiful young girl.

An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. Not her. Not her three sisters. Receiving approval only for uncomplaining sacrifice, she has resolved to take on her family’s troubles. She is a good girl. And she knows what good girls must do.

The Best Girls is part of Disorder, a collection of six short stories of living nightmares, chilling visions, and uncanny imagination that explore a world losing its balance in terrifying ways. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single disorienting sitting.

Sunja und ihre Söhne leben als koreanische Einwanderer in Japan wie Menschen zweiter Klasse. Während Sunja versucht, sich abzufinden, fordern Noa und Mozasu ihr Schicksal heraus. Der eine schafft es an die besten Universitäten des Landes, den anderen zieht es in die Spielhallen der kriminellen Unterwelt der Yakuza.

Ein opulentes Familienepos über Loyalität und die Suche nach der eigenen Identität.

1930-е годы. Дочь бедной вдовы, юная кореянка Сонджа счастлива - она любима и ждет ребенка. Правда, когда выясняется, что ее избранник женат и готов взять девушку лишь в содержанки, Сонджа от отчаяния принимает предложение молодого пастора и уезжает с ним в Японию. Она надеется на лучшее, но готова ко всему... Так начинается сага о нескольких поколениях эмигрантов…

In 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.

Richly 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.

Głęboko poruszająca i napisana z wdziękiem powieść śledzi losy koreańskiej rodziny na przestrzeni pokoleń, poczynając od początku XX wieku. Sunja, dziewczyna z biednej, ale dumnej rodziny, zachodzi w nieplanowaną ciążę, co może okryć jej bliskich hańbą. Odepchnięta przez zamożnego kochanka znajduje ratunek w ramionach młodego ministra, który oferuje jej małżeństwo i nowe życie w Japonii.

Tak zaczyna się wciągająca saga o wyjątkowych ludziach w fascynujących czasach. Rodzina Sunji doświadcza wzlotów i upadków. Tęskni za ojczyzną, której nie zna, i stara się dostosować do miejsca, którego nie rozumie. Pachinko to uniwersalna historia o tym, co muszą poświęcić imigranci, by znaleźć swoje miejsce w świecie.

‘Vivid and immersive, Pachinko is a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing.’
–The Guardian

Yeongdo, Korea 1911
A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then a Christian minister offers a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.

Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.

‘A beautifully realised saga.’
TLS

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.