In a later 1980s timeline, Sunja's grandson Solomon is a successful finance exec. The pair marries and immigrate to Japan, where they live as permanent residents called Zainichi, who are subject to discrimination and bullying. After learning that Hansu is married, Sunja meets a kind minister, Isak (Steve Sanghyun Noh). As a teenager, Sunja (Minha Kim) falls in love with Hansu (Lee Minho), a wealthy Japanese-adopted Korean, and becomes pregnant with his child. The official trailer introduces Sunja, a Korean daughter of inn owners in the seaside town Busan. 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.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play The trailer shows one woman's story told over three generations.

Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. 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. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan.

He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. 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. 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 2018 DAYTON 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. 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 ).

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