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A review by yunsq
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
medium-paced
5.0
Usually in a big book like this, intertwined with history and loaded with information, I’d get lost so quickly. But this was a very engaging read, and Lee did such a good job at connecting all the characters with a simple, and easily understandable voice and narrative.
I feel for all the characters so, so, much. I sometimes forget that they are actually so much older than me. How did Solomon grow up so quickly! It’s an inexplicable feeling — reading about someone’s life from their birth to death.
One (ok, two) of my favourite sentences in the book is - “Without Hansu and Isak and Noa, there wouldn’t have been this pilgrimage to this land. Beyond the dailiness, there had been moments of shimmering beauty and some glory, too, even in the ajumma’s life. Even if no one knew, it was true.”
Given the current headspace I am in, this was the perfect book to keep me going.
I feel for all the characters so, so, much. I sometimes forget that they are actually so much older than me. How did Solomon grow up so quickly! It’s an inexplicable feeling — reading about someone’s life from their birth to death.
One (ok, two) of my favourite sentences in the book is - “Without Hansu and Isak and Noa, there wouldn’t have been this pilgrimage to this land. Beyond the dailiness, there had been moments of shimmering beauty and some glory, too, even in the ajumma’s life. Even if no one knew, it was true.”
Given the current headspace I am in, this was the perfect book to keep me going.