Pachinko

A Korean woman's secret pregnancy in 1910 sets in motion four generations of a family navigating Japanese colonialism, WWII, post-war discrimination, and the particular limbo of being Zainichi — ethnic Korean, born in Japan, belonging fully to neither country. Lee spent thirty years researching and writing this novel. The dispatch from inside one of the most systematically erased communities in East Asia — people who were brought to Japan as colonial labor and then told they didn't exist as Japanese citizens even when they'd been born there. One of the great multigenerational novels of the 21st century.