Min Jin Lee’s debut novel, FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES, was one of the “Top 10 Novels of the Year” for the Times (London), NPR’s "Fresh Air" and USA Today. Her second novel, PACHINKO, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017 and was named one of the “Top Ten Books of the Year” by the New York Times. Her short fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her writings have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, 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.

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Books by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee - Fiction, Historical Fiction

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.

Free Food for Millionaires

by Min Jin Lee - Fiction