{"title":"Min Jin Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMin Jin Lee’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29983711.Pachinko\" title=\"Pachinko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003ePachinko\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/709734.Free_Food_for_Millionaires\" title=\"Free Food for Millionaires\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eFree Food for Millionaires\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Editor’s Choice, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, NPR’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMin Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Shorts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and has appeared most recently in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConde Nast Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of London, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (US), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravel + Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (SEA), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood \u0026amp; Wine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her personal essays have been anthologized in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/86489.To_Be_Real\" title=\"To Be Real\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eTo Be Real\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/149915.Breeder\" title=\"Breeder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eBreeder\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7395914.The_Mark_Twain_Anthology__Great_Writers_on_His_Life_and_Work\" title=\"The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThe Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5294768.One_Big_Happy_Family\" title=\"One Big Happy Family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eOne Big Happy Family\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10321830.Sugar_in_My_Bowl\" title=\"Sugar in My Bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eSugar in My Bowl\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/12355246.The_Global_and_the_Intimate__Feminism_in_Our_Time\" title=\"The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThe Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChosun Ilbo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of South Korea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn\/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pachinko","title":"Pachinko","description":"\u003cp\u003e* The million-copy bestseller*\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e* National Book Award finalist *\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThrough eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n","brand":"Apollo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47708153512184,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"BAM","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/files\/Pachinko_362265a4-75af-49ec-9172-7da87f39a778.jpg?v=1771411065"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6602\/1624\/collections\/Min_Jin.webp?v=1771411219","url":"https:\/\/buybook.ba\/collections\/min-jin-lee.oembed","provider":"Buybook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}