10 Novels To Read if You Love 'Pachinko'

Before Pachinko made its way to Apple TV+ and received a Critics' Choice Award, it was once the novel of writer Min Jin Lee. A multigenerational story told throughout three generations, Pachinko begins in a small Korean village in the early 1900s when Korea was under merciless Japanese colonial rule. At the story's center is Kim Sun-ja, a strong-willed young woman whose life takes a drastic turn following an encounter with a wealthy married man. Faced with shame and limited options, she finds a new beginning in Japan with a kind yet sickly pastor named Isak.