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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
Since I saw the first season of the drama in 2022, I’ve wanted to read this book. I finally bought it in December 2024, and I’m reading it now. What a long journey I’ve covered to finally get to it! This drama helped me learn about Japanese atrocities. I don’t know why, but I felt a deep connection with the story and an intense curiosity about what happens next. The drama is very well made, and it helped me visualize everything vividly.
I felt sad most of the time while reading the book. I cried, and at one point, I was utterly shocked. I don’t usually experience that kind of shock. I wish I had someone to talk to about the melancholy I feel after finishing it.
I have so much to say about the book, but I can’t grasp everything just yet. I need more time to reflect. Through this book, I lived across three generations, which is something I had never thought much about before. I don’t belong to any of these generations—I was born decades later—but the helplessness I felt is indescribable. I often think what I would have done at this point if I was on that place.
The worst part of knowing this story is that, although it’s fictional, I can’t console myself by thinking that none of the characters were real. I know the stories told in this book was someone's reality at some point.
Few lines from books
1. "The poor man mocked their powerful colonizer within theri walls of the boarding house, feeling secure from the colonial police, wooden border with fisherman with grandiose ideas."
2. "The women cleared the tables and 8 the simple dinner quietly because the men was sleeping."
3. "Do you need enough rice for a wedding party?" He asked, unable to redem how the women would pay for such a thing.
"No. Just enough for the two of them".
"Yang Jin Pushed the tray of money towards him. If he still said no, then she would March into every rice shop ine Busan so her daughter could have white rice for a wedding dinner."
"Rice seller went to the store room to find the bit he'd student away for the cage in such as these."
4. "You have had enough food and money, so you have started to think about ideas-that's normal. Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make a man forget their own interests. And the guys in charge well exploit man who believe in ideas too much."
I felt sad most of the time while reading the book. I cried, and at one point, I was utterly shocked. I don’t usually experience that kind of shock. I wish I had someone to talk to about the melancholy I feel after finishing it.
I have so much to say about the book, but I can’t grasp everything just yet. I need more time to reflect. Through this book, I lived across three generations, which is something I had never thought much about before. I don’t belong to any of these generations—I was born decades later—but the helplessness I felt is indescribable. I often think what I would have done at this point if I was on that place.
The worst part of knowing this story is that, although it’s fictional, I can’t console myself by thinking that none of the characters were real. I know the stories told in this book was someone's reality at some point.
Few lines from books
1. "The poor man mocked their powerful colonizer within theri walls of the boarding house, feeling secure from the colonial police, wooden border with fisherman with grandiose ideas."
2. "The women cleared the tables and 8 the simple dinner quietly because the men was sleeping."
3. "Do you need enough rice for a wedding party?" He asked, unable to redem how the women would pay for such a thing.
"No. Just enough for the two of them".
"Yang Jin Pushed the tray of money towards him. If he still said no, then she would March into every rice shop ine Busan so her daughter could have white rice for a wedding dinner."
"Rice seller went to the store room to find the bit he'd student away for the cage in such as these."
4. "You have had enough food and money, so you have started to think about ideas-that's normal. Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make a man forget their own interests. And the guys in charge well exploit man who believe in ideas too much."