书籍介绍
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled 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 be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the 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 crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
AI导读
核心看点
- 跨越世纪的四代韩裔家族史诗
- 深刻探讨移民身份认同困境
- 细腻刻画女性在乱世中的坚韧
适合谁读
- 对移民文学与家族史感兴趣者
- 关注种族、性别议题的读者
- 喜欢厚重历史感小说的读者
读前提醒
- 人物众多，建议理清代际关系
- 后半部节奏放缓，需耐心阅读
- 部分情节转折略显刻意，请包容
读者共识
- 前半部精彩绝伦，后半部稍显拖沓
- 人物塑造深刻，但部分角色扁平
- 情感真挚动人，引发强烈共鸣
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "如果你在任何事情上都做得很好，你就得上税给所有那些差强人意的人。另一方面，如果你做得不好，生活也会让你付失败税。每个人都得有所付出。"
- "Akiko: “Noah chan, why are you so angry with me? You know that I think you of the best." Noah stared at her. She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself, but some fanciful idea of a foreign person. She would always feel like she was someone special because she had conde"
- "“受苦。”杨金大声说，“女人天生就是受苦的命。” “是的，受苦。”庆熙点点头，重复着这个词。在一生中，顺子也听过其他女人有此感慨，她们肯定受了很多苦，做姑娘时受苦，为人妻后受苦，为人母还要受苦，死的时候也要受苦。受苦，这个词让她感觉恶心。除了受苦，还有什么？她受苦，是为了给诺亚创造更好的生活，但这还不够。她应该教她的儿子忍受她经常都必须承受的屈辱吗？最后，他拒绝忍受他的出身。母亲没有告诉自己的儿子苦难总会降临，算失败吗？"
- "“这么说，成功税来自嫉妒，失败税来自剥削。好吧。”所罗点了点头，好像他开始明白了。“那平庸税是什么呢？为什么……” “问得好，年轻的绝地武士。平庸税来自你和所有知道你平庸的人。这种税比你想象的要沉重。” 所罗以前从来没有想到过这样的事，这倒不是说他认为自己很特别，但他从不认为自己平庸。也许这是不言而喻的，即使对他自己来说也是如此，但他确实渴望成功。 “绝地武士，你要明白一点，没有什么比明白你和其他人一模一样更糟糕的了。糟糕透顶的生活啊。而且，在日本这个伟大的国家，我所有英明的祖先都在这里出生，每个人都想和其他人一样。因此，生活在这里才很安全，但此处也是一个恐龙村。恐龙已经绝种了，伙计。把你的那"
- "The Emperor does not give a fuck about anyone, either.So I'm not going to tell you not to go to any meetingsr not to join any group.But know this:Those communists don't care about you.They don't care about anybody. You're crazy if you think they care about Korea."
- "爱国主义只是一个概念，资本主义或共产主义也是如此。但思想会使人忘记自己的利益。头头脑脑就会利用那些过于相信思想的人。你解决不了朝鲜的问题。一百个你，一百个我，都不能让朝鲜变好。"
- "空气中弥漫着浓重的海藻味，海浪泛着泡沫，拍打着布满岩石的海滩，蓝灰色的大海一望无际，空空荡荡，只有白色鸟儿在他们上方盘旋。"
- "He liked the look of her ---- glossy braided hair, a full bosom bound beneath her white, starched blouse, its long sash tied neatly, and her quick, sure-footed steps. Her young hands showed work; they were not hte soft, knowing hands of a teahouse girl or the thin, pale hands of a highbrorn one. Her"
作者简介
Min Jin Lee (born 1968) is a Korean American writer whose work frequently deals with Korean American topics.[1] She is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017). Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the "Top 10 Novels of the Year" for The Times (London), NPR's Fresh A ir, and USA Today. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The Times (London), Vogue, Travel+Leisure, Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, and Food & Wine. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo, the leading paper of South Korea. She lives in New York with her family.
用户评论
上周看到BBC的影评，先找了书来看，没有想象中的好，人物有些单薄，尤其是三代男性形象都过于理想化了，第三部分几个城市穿插来回，叙述的视角有些乱，Solomon的几次人生选择不符合他的成长经历，缺少逻辑性
四代移民的辛酸，生活越来越好，然而不变的是对自己身份认同的挣扎。后半段无关人物介绍得太多，个体的发展又不够，读起来没有前半部那么精彩。最爱Sunja和Isak以及Hansu的爱恨纠葛。大概多数女人都被一生挚爱伤透了心，然后嫁给了一个全心爱自己的好男人
是超越个体和家庭而关乎整个民族的一段历史；特殊的时代背景下群体性的压迫令人印象深刻。
gripping story that spans 4 generations, different ways of being korean in japan, really a soap opera colored by the weight of history (young girl's affair and pregnancy, poverty of korean slum in osaka, korean mafia, pachinko business)
弃。据说后30%会比较好看。但是我从某个时间点开始已经不看讲述男人女人情感纠葛的故事，而且是像这样完全不美丽的故事。
一共三部分。我只读了book1。不论有意无意，本书都是针对于美国读者，比如大萧条和女主丈夫的身份。故事比较平淡、日常，甚至俗套、狗血，对90年前并没有太多的理解。如果作为book1都不能吸引我，我就得止损了。
2022.12
Just because you have a well fleshed-out woman as the protagonist doesn't make the perspective any different from a conventional, patricentric one
Korean in Japan，four generations.可是直到平成年代，一切都没有改变。身份认同，境遇与机遇，以及一个烙刻上民族印记的职业。支持Asian writers。借阅
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