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National Book Award finalist. This masterpiece, which depicts the struggles of four generations of a Korean family living in Japan and has resonated all over the world, is finally being published in Japan!

Yeongdo Island off the coast of Busan on the Korean Peninsula, which was annexed by Japan. Kim Sung-ja, who was born as the daughter of a couple who ran a boarding house, met a man named Hans who made a living trading with Japan. Sonja falls in love with Hans, who smells like an unfamiliar city, and eventually becomes pregnant, only to learn that Hans has a wife and child in Japan. Isaac, a young pastor, reaches out to Sonja, who is ashamed and distressed about her unforgivable pregnancy. He vows to raise Sonja's child as his own, and he and Sonja move to Tsuruhashi, Osaka, where his older brother lives...

It begins on the Korean Peninsula in 1910, moves to Osaka, and then to Yokohama. A magnificent story that makes us realize once again the overwhelming power of novels. Thirty years after its conception, this masterpiece by a Korean-American author has moved readers around the world and was a finalist for America's biggest literary award, the National Book Award.

Over 1 million copies sold in America. Recommended by former President Obama.

countryoforigin: Japan