Showing results for "Min Jin Lee" in Family Life

Yeongdo, 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.

Casey Han is a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to make her way in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth – but at what cost?

An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. Not her. Not her three sisters. Receiving approval only for uncomplaining sacrifice, she has resolved to take on her family’s troubles. She is a good girl. And she knows what good girls must do.

‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART ‘Extraordinary’ TARA WESTOVER ‘A novel I didn't want to end’ ROXANE GAY Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and...

Fille d'immigrants coréens, Casey Han a été élevée dans le Queens dans le respect des traditions et des valeurs de ses parents. Propriétaires d’un pressing, ils ont travaillé dur pour payer les meilleures études à leur fille et lui permettre une belle carrière professionnelle. Mais à 22 ans, Casey, diplômée de Princeton, a pris les goûts de luxe et les manières de ses camarades et ne rêve que d’une vie glamour à Manhattan.

Von der Autorin des internationalen Bestsellers "Ein einfaches Leben". Casey Han, Tochter koreanischer Einwanderer, hat sich den amerikanischen Traum zu eigen gemacht: Sie will reich und erfolgreich sein. Doch nach dem Studium hat sie noch keinen Job und lebt über ihre Verhältnisse – zum Ärger der Eltern, die große Opfer gebracht haben, um ihren Kindern eine bessere Zukunft zu bieten. Während Casey vor der bunten Kulisse New Yorks einen Weg voller kleiner Triumphe und spektakulärer Misserfolge beschreitet, prallen Werte und Wünsche aufeinander.