That day marks the beginning of their affair, where Hansu repeatedly uses her for her body and Sunja is continuously assaulted without realizing it, as she believes they are meant to be married. After weeks of meeting her, Hansu goes with Sunja into the forest and sexually assaults her. From that point on, Hansu spends weeks secretly meeting with her and sharing his stories of Osaka with her, with Sunja learning Hansu is a Zainichi Korean therefore knowing fluent Japanese when threatening the teenagers. However, she shows little interest in him until he saves her from an attempted sexual assault by three teenagers on her way home from the market, leading her to start trusting him.
At age sixteen, Sunja is pursued by a wealthy fishbroker named Koh Hansu. After her thirteenth birthday, she is raised by her mother Yangjin, her father Hoonie having died from tuberculosis.
In the mid-1910s, Yangjin and Hoonie have a daughter named Sunja. Hoonie and Yangjin take over the lodging house upon the passing of Hoonie's parents. Due to their prudent habits, Hoonie's family's situation is comparatively more stable, and a matchmaker arranges a marriage between Hoonie and Yangjin, the daughter of a poor farmer who had lost everything in the colonial conquest. When he is 27, Japan annexes Korea, and many families are left destitute and without food. Because of his deformities, Hoonie is considered ineligible for marriage. They have three sons, but only one, Hoonie, who has a cleft lip and twisted foot, survives to adulthood. In 1883, in the little island fishing village of Yeongdo, which is a ferry ride from Busan, an aging fisherman and his wife take in lodgers to make a little more money. Book III, Pachinko, begins with Noa's new beginnings in Nagano and ends with Sunja's reflections upon everything that has happened to her.īook I (1910–1933): Gohyang/Hometown.Book II, Motherland, begins with Baek Isak's incarceration and ends with Sunja's search of Koh Hansu.Book I, Gohyang/Hometown, begins with the story of Sunja's father, Hoonie, and ends with Noa's birth.The novel takes place over the course of three sections, which begin with quotations from the works of Charles Dickens, Park Wan-suh, and Benedict Anderson, respectively. Apple Inc.'s streaming service Apple TV+ produced a television adaptation of the novel and it was released in March 2022. Pachinko was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The character-driven story features an ensemble of characters who encounter racism, discrimination, stereotyping, and other aspects of the 20th-century Korean experience of Japan. Published in 2017, Pachinko is an epic historical fiction novel following a Korean family who immigrates to Japan. Pachinko is the second novel by Harlem-based author and journalist Min Jin Lee.
0 kommentar(er)
