A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an ""extraordinary epic"" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). New York Times Notable Book Of 2017 * A Usa Today Top Ten Of 2017 * July Pick For The Pbs Newshour-new York Times Book Club Now Read This * Finalist For The 2018DAYTON Literary Peace Prize* Winner Of The Medici Book Club Prize Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post New York Times Bestseller * #1 Boston Globe Bestseller * Usa Today Bestseller * Wall Street Journal Bestseller * Washington Post Bestseller ""There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."" 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.