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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

4.36 AVERAGE


Beautiful story telling and an accurate portrayal of history. These are the main reasons i became so invested in this story
emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

An incredible piece or work. Simply written but with ranges of seep emotion and heartbreak. I cannot say there were many happy moment in the book, though you got a sense of the deep resilience of the characters.
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
hopeful sad slow-paced

First of all I won’t recommend the book to any one because the author is supporting zionist and sympathises with them and calling for the occupation of Palestine ⛔️⛔️⛔️

Secondly, after 75% of the book, it was just full of useless words 2 chapters just talking about sex and I found it impossible to not skip till I reached the last chapter where Sunja visits Isak’s grave. 

The story was more interesting when it was about the first generation. 

Themes: identity, racism, education, motherhood, survival, resilience, faith, family, land. 

Ironically, themes doesn’t match a pro-zio person 
Never recommending 👎