So, in pachinko they were able to find a kind of employment haven." "Even now they have great difficulty finding jobs in certain sectors. "The Korean Japanese could not find legal employment for. Min Jin Lee is also the author of the novel Free Food for Millionaires. She decided to tell their history through a multigenerational family story. She lived there for a while and interviewed many Korean Japanese to get a sense of what life was like for them. Lee, a Korean-American, was determined to tell the history of Koreans in Japan. That story just really could not be more fixed in my brain." The parents were born in Japan, the boy was born in Japan. "They had written the words: die, die, die. "And in this yearbook several of his classmates had written things like: Go back to your country," Lee says. After his death the boy's parents found his school yearbook. He told a story about a 13-year-old boy who committed suicide. It was 1989 and she went to a lecture by an American missionary who had been working with the Korean Japanese in Japan. Lee got the idea for her book when she was still a college student. It's about the story of one family's struggle to fit into a society that treats them with contempt.
Min Jin Lee's new novel Pachinko is about much more than the game. Known as pachinko, the multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by Korean Japanese, an immigrant community that has been unwelcome and ill-treated for generations. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Pachinko Author Min Jin Lee
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