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* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 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 falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.

**FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PACHINKO**‘This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American Novel..’ The Times‘Exquisitely evoked.’ USA Today ‘Ambitious and accomplished.’ New York Times‘Could have been penned by Austen herself.’ Daily Mail 'An insight into the secret world of Korean America.' ObserverCasey Han is a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can’t afford. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to make her way in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth – but at what cost?This sharp-eyed epic exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways – a portrait of intergenerational strife, immigrant struggle, and social and economic mobility – set against the glimmering backdrop of late-twentieth-century New York City.Praise for Min Jin Lee:‘Powerful.’ Barack Obama‘A masterpiece.’ John Boyne‘Deep, broad, addictive.’ David Mitchell‘Luminous... powerful.’ Junot Díaz‘Eye-opening.’ The Times

‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN‘Breathtaking … I adored it’ ELIF SHAFAK‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three children – Bo, DH and Mido – are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures.They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California, where new opportunities open for the Koh children, as the parents, strangers in a strange land, adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little. Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents.The Kohs, their friends, relatives and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate love, work, fortune and fulfilment across the years. But with each new sacrifice and fresh horizon, larger questions begin to open up before them: what are we willing to give up to secure the happiness of the ones we love? What is the purpose of education? And what is truly important for a good life?American Hagwon is the most ambitious and extraordinary work yet by one of our greatest novelists. A New York Times most anticipated book of the year and seen in Elle, Harper's Bazaar, New Yorker, Independent, TIME and more. ‘If your faith in either humanity or storytelling has dimmed, American Hagwon will make it blaze again’ KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of Best of Friends‘Incredibly beautiful … an absolute joy that you will take with you for the rest of your life’ JOANNA CANNON, author of An Unlikely Visitor‘Enchanting and elegant, American Hagwon had me completely absorbed … as dazzlingly intelligent as it is emotionally breathtaking’ ELIF SHAFAK, author of There Are Rivers In The Sky‘A world so rich and intricate that you forget you're reading’ TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated ‘Lee is truly the master of the generational epic’ BOOKSELLER ‘I read huge swaths of this book with my heart in my throat’ JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Red At The Bone‘A moving epic of family life … heart-warming, heart-breaking’ ERICA WAGNER, author of Gravity

‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN‘Breathtaking … I adored it’ ELIF SHAFAK‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three children – Bo, DH and Mido – are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures.They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California, where new opportunities open for the Koh children, as the parents, strangers in a strange land, adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little. Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents.The Kohs, their friends, relatives and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate love, work, fortune and fulfilment across the years. But with each new sacrifice and fresh horizon, larger questions begin to open up before them: what are we willing to give up to secure the happiness of the ones we love? What is the purpose of education? And what is truly important for a good life?American Hagwon is the most ambitious and extraordinary work yet by one of our greatest novelists. A New York Times most anticipated book of the year and seen in Elle, Harper's Bazaar, New Yorker, Independent, TIME and more. ‘If your faith in either humanity or storytelling has dimmed, American Hagwon will make it blaze again’ KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of Best of Friends‘Incredibly beautiful … an absolute joy that you will take with you for the rest of your life’ JOANNA CANNON, author of An Unlikely Visitor‘Enchanting and elegant, American Hagwon had me completely absorbed … as dazzlingly intelligent as it is emotionally breathtaking’ ELIF SHAFAK, author of There Are Rivers In The Sky‘A world so rich and intricate that you forget you're reading’ TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated ‘Lee is truly the master of the generational epic’ BOOKSELLER ‘I read huge swaths of this book with my heart in my throat’ JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Red At The Bone‘A moving epic of family life … heart-warming, heart-breaking’ ERICA WAGNER, author of Gravity

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home. Enlightening, poignant, and undeniably human, the stories in this anthology bravely confront societal darkness and offer, in Lee’s words, “our emotional truths, restoring our sanity and providing comfort for the days ahead.”The Best American Short Stories 2023 includes Cherline Bazile • Maya Binyam • Tom Bissell • Taryn Bowe • Da-Lin • Benjamin Ehrlich• Sara Freeman • Lauren Groff • Nathan Harris • Jared Jackson • Sana Krasikov • Danica Li • Ling Ma • Manuel Muñoz • Joanna Pearson • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Kosiso Ugwueze • Corinna Vallianatos • Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi • Esther Yi

A collection of the years best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award FinalistPachinko,selectstwenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist** A New York Times Bestseller ** Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club **Selected for The Queen's Reading Room*'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. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought. Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades. Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.

In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children-Bo, DH, and Mido-find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California-where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'' BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist** An instant New York Times Bestseller ** Selected for Emma Watson''s Our Shared Shelf book club **Selected for The Queen''s Reading Room*''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. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought. Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades. Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.

**FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PACHINKO**''Ambitious, accomplished.'' NEW YORK TIMES''A remarkable writer.'' THE TIMES ''Exquisitely evoked.'' USA TODAYCasey Han''s years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. But she has no job, and a number of bad habits.So when a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she''s determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth – but at what cost?As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee''s bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.''Explores the most fundamental crisis of immigrants'' children: how to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans.'' OBSERVER

»Eine überwältigende Geschichte über Widerstandsfähigkeit und Mitgefühl.« Barack ObamaSunja und ihre Söhne leben als koreanische Einwanderer in Japan wie Menschen zweiter Klasse. Während Sunja versucht, sich abzufinden, fordern Noa und Mozasu ihr Schicksal heraus. Der eine schafft es an die besten Universitäten des Landes, den anderen zieht es in die Spielhallen der kriminellen Unterwelt der Yakuza.Ein opulentes Familienepos über Loyalität und die Suche nach der eigenen Identität

Amerikanischer Kapitalismus trifft koreanische TraditionCasey Han, Tochter koreanischer Einwanderer, hat sich den amerikanischen Traum zu eigen gemacht: Sie will reich und erfolgreich sein. Doch nach dem Studium hat sie noch keinen Job und lebt über ihre Verhältnisse – zum Ärger der Eltern, die große Opfer gebracht haben, um ihren Kindern eine bessere Zukunft zu bieten. Während Casey vor der bunten Kulisse New Yorks einen Weg voller kleiner Triumphe und spektakulärer Misserfolge beschreitet, prallen Werte und Wünsche aufeinander. Fesselnd und intelligent erzählt Min Jin Lee von einer orientierungslosen jungen Frau, ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden und enthüllt dabei Schicht für Schicht, wie eine Gemeinschaft sich an Traditionen klammert und Menschen zwischen zwei Welten gefangen sind.