Min Jin Lee

“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...

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PACHINKO ‘Ambitious, accomplished.’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A remarkable writer.’ THE TIMES ‘Exquisitely evoked.’ USA TODAY Casey 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...

Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of the major global bestseller Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with ambition and moderation, love and loyalty, 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...

Pachinko is a gripping, multi-generational saga that traverses the complex history and landscape of Korea and Japan. The novel begins in Yeongdo, Korea, in 1911, where a humble fisherman with a clubfoot and cleft palate marries a young teenage girl. Despite their hardships, they find joy in the birth of their beloved daughter, Sunja. Sunja's life takes an unexpected turn...

**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.' Observer Casey Han is a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed...

One of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. "Stunning." --New York Times Book Review In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When...