{"title":"Min Jin Lee","description":"Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of the New York Times' \"Ten Best Books of 2017.\" A New York Times bestseller, Pachinko was also one of the \"Ten Best Books\" of the year for BBC and the New York Public Library, and a \"best international fiction\" pick for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In total, it was on over seventy-five best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN, and it was a selection for Now Read This,  the joint book club of PBS NewsHour and the New York Times.  Pachinko will be translated into twenty-seven languages. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was one of the best books of the year for the Times of London, NPR's Fresh Air, and USA Today, and it was a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in the New Yorker, NPR's Selected Shorts, One Story, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, the Times of London, andthe Wall Street Journal. Lee served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea. In 2018, she was named as one of Adweek's Creative 100 for being one of the \"ten writers and editors who are changing the national conversation,\" and one of the Guardian's Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.","products":[{"product_id":"pachinko-deluxe-limited-edition-hardcover","title":"Pachinko (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA limited hardcover deluxe edition of the modern classic \u003ci\u003ePachinko\u003c\/i\u003e--named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times'\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Best Books of the 21st Century--following four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fighting to control their destiny in 20th-Century Japan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Features: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New hardcover jacket with special effects \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Four-color specially designed endpapers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Specially designed foil stamped case \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Four-color stenciled edges \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ribbon bookmark \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e History is seldom kind. In Min Jin Lee's acclaimed and magisterial novel, four generations of a poor, proud immigrant family fight to control their destinies while exiled from their homeland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to bend to his will. Instead she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home and reject her son's powerful father sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richly told and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003ePachinko \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of one of Japan's finest universities to pachinko parlors and the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--resilient, fierce women, devoted sisters, bright sons, fathers shaken by moral crises--survive and flourish against the indifferent arc of history.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101846966495,"sku":"9781538784020","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vFsnOo56X59781538784020.webp?v=1781075753"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/min-jin-lee.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}