* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. 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 wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends; no home; and whose language she cannot speak; Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations; Pachinko is an epic tale of family; identity; love; death and survival.