Take a photo of a barcode or cover
didsasters 's review for:
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
3.5
I had to take a night thinking through on how I want to form an opinion here.
Badly wanted this to work on me but sadly, it did not.
A historical multi-generational, family saga exploring the themes of poverty, displacement from war, racial prejudice, women generalization, love and honour, that starts in Korea at the turn of the 20th century and concludes in Japan in 1989. It explores the Korean-Japanese identity and the social and legal discrimination experienced by those with that heritage.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first part where we're introduced to a poor family who had a daughter named Sunja and her life was so simple. Poor and difficult but that's life. Then things happened, Sunja was taken to Japan where life supposed to be easier but just like my experience while reading this one, it did not work that way.
Overall story was fine, I guess but the storytelling bore me at times I find myself could not having an attachment to any of the characters though life tortured them hard. I just simply don't care and that's sad... to not to be able to empathize with their pain.
I had to take a night thinking through on how I want to form an opinion here.
Badly wanted this to work on me but sadly, it did not.
A historical multi-generational, family saga exploring the themes of poverty, displacement from war, racial prejudice, women generalization, love and honour, that starts in Korea at the turn of the 20th century and concludes in Japan in 1989. It explores the Korean-Japanese identity and the social and legal discrimination experienced by those with that heritage.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first part where we're introduced to a poor family who had a daughter named Sunja and her life was so simple. Poor and difficult but that's life. Then things happened, Sunja was taken to Japan where life supposed to be easier but just like my experience while reading this one, it did not work that way.
Overall story was fine, I guess but the storytelling bore me at times I find myself could not having an attachment to any of the characters though life tortured them hard. I just simply don't care and that's sad... to not to be able to empathize with their pain.