Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

A trade paperback special edition of the modern classic Pachinko, National Book Award finalist and named one of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Features of the paperback special limited edition:

• Full cover with special effects
• Four color stenciled edges
• Four color tip-in

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, exiled from their homeland.

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.

Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crises--survive and flourish against the indifferent arc of history.

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a New York Times "100 Best Books of the Century." She serves as the New York State Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027. She is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. Lee has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her family.

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  
• Publish Date: August 04, 2026
  
• Pages: 528
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781538784037
  
• Dimensions: 8 in H | 5.3 in W | 1.4 in T | 1 lb
  
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction