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パチンコ 下
さまざまな苦難に耐えながら、彼らは強く生き抜こうとする。
在日コリアン一家の苦難の物語は戦後へ。
「物語」というものの圧倒的な力を見せつける大作は1989年に幕を閉じる。
劣悪な環境のなかで兄嫁とともに戦中の大阪を生き抜き、二人の息子を育てあげたソンジャ。そこへハンスが姿をあらわした。日本の裏社会で大きな存在感をもつハンスは、いまもソンジャへの恋慕の念を抱いており、これまでもひそかにソンジャ一家を助けていたという。だが、早稲田大学の学生をなったソンジャの長男ノアが、自分の実の父親がハンスだったと知ったとき、悲劇は起きる――
戦争から復興してゆく日本社会で、まるでパチンコの玉のように運命に翻弄されるソンジャと息子たち、そして孫たち。東京、横浜、長野、ニューヨーク――変転する物語は、さまざまな愛と憎しみと悲しみをはらみつつ、読む者を万感こもるフィナーレへと運んでゆく。巻措くあたわざる物語の力を駆使して、国家と歴史に押し流されまいとする人間の尊厳を謳う大作、ここに完結。
在日コリアン一家の苦難の物語は戦後へ。
「物語」というものの圧倒的な力を見せつける大作は1989年に幕を閉じる。
劣悪な環境のなかで兄嫁とともに戦中の大阪を生き抜き、二人の息子を育てあげたソンジャ。そこへハンスが姿をあらわした。日本の裏社会で大きな存在感をもつハンスは、いまもソンジャへの恋慕の念を抱いており、これまでもひそかにソンジャ一家を助けていたという。だが、早稲田大学の学生をなったソンジャの長男ノアが、自分の実の父親がハンスだったと知ったとき、悲劇は起きる――
戦争から復興してゆく日本社会で、まるでパチンコの玉のように運命に翻弄されるソンジャと息子たち、そして孫たち。東京、横浜、長野、ニューヨーク――変転する物語は、さまざまな愛と憎しみと悲しみをはらみつつ、読む者を万感こもるフィナーレへと運んでゆく。巻措くあたわざる物語の力を駆使して、国家と歴史に押し流されまいとする人間の尊厳を謳う大作、ここに完結。
368 pages, Hardcover
First published February 7, 2017
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About the author
Min Jin Lee
18 books8,594 followersMin Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
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April 27, 2020
I started and finished it for a day. It has such a solid story line. In 2018 I read this book in English, the original version. I think, sadness manifested a little deeper in Korean.
January 22, 2022
I, of course, did not read this book in Korean but halfway through realized I had already read this book. I was so invested that I had to finish. I remembered parts of it but really wanted to see how this families life played out. It’s a very good story of a Korean family.
Starts in the early 1900s with a daughter who’s unplanned pregnancy sets wheels in motion for many generations. It’s a very long book almost 500 pages but I really liked the story.
Starts in the early 1900s with a daughter who’s unplanned pregnancy sets wheels in motion for many generations. It’s a very long book almost 500 pages but I really liked the story.
November 20, 2021
It was a too good story to be true.
As one story it was awesome but it has lots of historical and ethical perspectives that made me think of. It took only a half day to read through all. Incredible!
As one story it was awesome but it has lots of historical and ethical perspectives that made me think of. It took only a half day to read through all. Incredible!
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