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'Zainichi Literature' review: What is the nature of exile?

Books / Reviews | RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN May 25, 2019

'Zainichi Literature' review: What is the nature of exile?

by Nicolas Gattig

A product of postwar Japan and virtually unknown internationally, Zainichi literature often explores the nature of exile and the conflict of identity between homes.

'The Kinship of Secrets': Heartbreak and family separation during the Korean War

Books Jan 19, 2019

'The Kinship of Secrets': Heartbreak and family separation during the Korean War

by Nicolas Gattig

Eugenia Kim's second novel, "The Kinship of Secrets," is a measuredly moving story of a girl losing and finding a home, the ways in which families grow into units and immigrants into citizens.

'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee on how Japan's ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds

Books / Reviews Mar 4, 2017

'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee on how Japan's ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds

by Nicolas Gattig

"I got lost all the time," says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco's Japantown. Before a promotional appearance at a bookstore, she spoke to The Japan Times about writing her new novel "Pachinko," a historical ...

'Pachinko': Min Jin Lee writes the struggle of an ethnic Korean family in Japan

Books / Reviews Mar 4, 2017

'Pachinko': Min Jin Lee writes the struggle of an ethnic Korean family in Japan

by Iain Maloney

Min Jin Lee's second novel, "Pachinko," charts the fortunes and misfortunes of four generations of a Korean family. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.490 pages GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, Fiction. Beginning in Yeongdo in 1910 with the marriage of Hoonie and Yangjin against the backdrop of Japanese annexation of ...

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