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A neighbour recommended Pachinko as the best book he had read this year. I was sceptical at first but it quickly turned out to be one of mine too. An epic historical novel about a part of the world I love, but a time and place I knew very little about. Excellent, compelling and deeply moving. A ground sweep of Korean/Japanese history (1911-1989) told through the eyes of Kim Sunja, her unexpected pregnancy and extended family. We follow Sunja's life from her early years in a fishing village near Busan, Korea, then desperately poor and under Japanese colonial rule. She moves to Osaka in Japan, and grows to be the matriarch of her family's survival across four generations. It speaks of street food vendors and pachinko gambling houses, of systemic racism and the Yakusa, of suicide and hidden LGQBT, and of resilience to life’s traumas. I travel a lot in…
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Gripping and fast-paced from the start, this was a crime thriller I couldn’t put down – with unexpected twists and turns to the very end. Two teenage girls, Serena and Poppy, become embroiled in an abusive relationship with their controlling, misogynistic and married schoolteacher. It ends in terrible disaster, and with the media-dubbed ‘Ice Cream Girls’ tried for murder. Poppy is convicted and sent to prison, while Serena is acquitted, but is this a tragic miscarriage of justice? Released after twenty years, Poppy seeks to reveal the truth and attribute justice where it truly belongs – but does it? Serena is happily married with children and a new identity – she will fight to protect her name. One of those books that left me wanting more, and I have now sought out Koomson’s other works.
At only eighteen years of age, Poppy and Serena were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the two glamorous teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by the press and forced to go their separate ways and to lead very different lives. Twenty years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while married mother-of-two Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past. But some secrets will not stay buried - and if theirs is revealed, their lives will start to unravel all…
