Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from 1910 to 1989. Lee writes with the sweep of a nineteenth-century novelist and the moral seriousness of someone who has thought hard about what history does to ordinary people. The discrimination faced by Zainichi Koreans in Japan is not widely known outside the country; this novel makes it impossible to remain ignorant.
This is the kind of novel that makes you want to press it into the hands of everyone you know. It is also, despite everything it contains, a deeply readable book — propulsive, emotionally generous, and full of characters you will not forget. One of the best novels of the last decade.
Year 2017
Price £10.99
Category Literary Fiction