The Pachinko Girl

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher : Tokyo Faces
ISBN 13 : 9781726745970
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pachinko Girl written by Vann Chow and published by Tokyo Faces. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emotionally complex and filled with passion. I am sure it will captivate readers from East and West." "Vann has a unique knowledge of Japan." Winner of the Wattys Award. An unforgettable, breathless debut fiction by author Vann Chow, THE PACHINKO GIRL is the winning selection of an international book award with over one hundred forty thousand submissions. While the book appears to be a murder mystery, the author explores and exposes a slew of human rights issues such as gender inequality, hyper-sexualization of teens, homosexual discrimination, racial discrimination, and workplace bullying among others in Japan through the eyes of a foreigner with his friends from different walks of lives and professions in her seminal debut fiction series.Synopsis: An American businessman Smith who loved to linger in Pachinko parlors every night in his lonely life as a foreigner in Tokyo met Misa, a young Japanese hostess working there by chance. He quickly found out that Misa was entangled into a web of gang-controlled business operations that involved illegal drugs distribution, money laundering and prostitution beneath the harmless facade of Pachinko casinos. Knowing her personal woes, he gave her his winnings to help her out to survive a difficult patch and change paths. That large sum of money quickly incriminated them to false accusation of sex trade. Meanwhile, a film director Tanaka investigated the death of his idol Sergey Ribery, the legendary French arthouse movie-maker who happened to have filmed Misa in his last work in which she was seemingly strangled to death in the story. Tanaka sought the help of a psychologist who may shed some light into the strange casts of characters involved in the case, but the doctor was later murdered. Who did this? And what was he or she trying to cover up?

Author : Min Jin Lee
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455563919
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher : Publishing House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pachinko Girl written by Vann Chow and published by Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable, breathless debut fiction by author Vann Chow, THE PACHINKO GIRL is the winning selection of a Canadian book award. Its colossal story has been regarded as a mix of psychological thriller, murder mystery, corporate espionage and more. The book also exposes a slew of human rights issues such as gender inequality, hyper-sexualization of teens, homosexual discrimination, racial discrimination, and workplace bullying among others in Japan through the eyes of a foreigner with his friends from different walks of lives and professions in her debut fiction series. Synopsis: An American businessman Smith who loved to linger in Pachinko parlors every night in his lonely life as a foreigner in Tokyo met Misa, a young Japanese hostess working there by chance. He quickly found out that Misa was entangled into a web of gang-controlled business operations that involved illegal drugs distribution, money laundering and prostitution beneath the harmless facade of Pachinko casinos. Knowing her personal woes, he gave her his winnings to help her out to survive a difficult patch and change paths. That large sum of money quickly incriminated them to false accusation of engaging in sex trade. Meanwhile, a film director Tanaka investigated the death of his idol Sergey Ribery, the legendary French arthouse movie-maker who happened to have filmed Misa in his last work in which she was seemingly strangled to death in the story. Tanaka sought the help of a psychologist who may shed some light into the strange casts of characters involved in the case, but the doctor was later murdered. Who did this? And what was he or she trying to cover up? THE PACHINKO GIRL is a colossal, twisted murder mystery written in four parts. This is the first book and it promises to run like a movie.

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522812630
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Man and the Pachinko Girl written by Vann Chow and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American business man who liked to linger in Pachinko parlor every night in his lonely life as a foreigner in the city of Tokyo met Misa, a young Japanese hostess that worked at a Pachinko parlor by chance. Knowing her personal woes, he gave her his winning as an exchange for Japanese lessons. That large sum of money incriminated them to false accuse of sex trade. Meanwhile, an ex-adult film producer investigated the death of a certain foreign producer who happened to have filmed Misa in his legendary work, in which she was seemingly strangled to death. The White Man and the Pachinko Girl is book one in the Tokyo Faces series by Vann Chow, an epic tale between two persons, the American man named Smith and the Japanese girl Misa, whose paths crossed in the mystical modern city of Japan.

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher : Tokyo Faces
ISBN 13 : 9781724195524
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secrets of the Pachinko Girl: A Psychological Thriller written by Vann Chow and published by Tokyo Faces. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three years, Misa Hayami had lived in disguise, making her living and trying to stay alive in the underbelly of Tokyo. The murders of two high school girls had inevitably exposed her identity. How could she get away from the dangers that were to come? And could she finally unveil the dark secret behind her mother's death? Would more people have to sacrifice themselves for her crusade? The Secrets of the Pachinko Girl is the latest release of the Tokyo Faces psychological thriller book series by award-winning novelist Vann Chow. The first book of the series, The Pachinko Girl, has been awarded the equivalent of an ebook Oscar by the world's largest online book reading platform in 2016, beating hundreds of thousands of submission by new writers all over the world. The book follows a cast of characters Carson Smith, the middle-aged American businessman, Tanaka Ryuuji, the disillusioned movie director, and Itsuki Miyazaki the corrupted detective in breakthrough multiple-first-person narrative technique in the journey across Japan to uncover the secrets behind a series of murders involving Misa Hayami and her biological father, Doctor Hasegawa. The book promises to run like a serialized television thriller and will left you breathless and surprised at every page such that you won't stop thinking about it. On top of its entertainment value, the Tokyo Faces series by Vann Chow attempted to explore a slew of human rights issues, in particular women's right in conservative Asian countries. The feministic struggle of Japanese women between their inclination to adhere to traditional family gender roles and their unfulfilled desires to make something of themselves and come out from the shadows of men is one of the major themes of the series. Wrapped in psychological medical drama, the secrets of the Pachinko Girl and her family slowly unravels as the series develops, bringing awareness to the cultural and social problems faced by the silenced minority in Japan.

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher : Tokyo Faces
ISBN 13 : 9781724196514
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kiss of the Pachinko Girl: A Psychological Thriller written by Vann Chow and published by Tokyo Faces. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE KISS OF THE PACHINKO GIRL is the second part of the story that started with the award-winning PACHINKO psychological thriller series. While the book series is an exciting crime fiction series, it also explores and exposes a slew of human rights issues such as gender inequality, hyper-sexualization of teens, homosexual discrimination, racial discrimination, and workplace bullying among others in Japan through the eyes of a foreigner with his friends from different walks of lives and professions. In The Kiss of the Pachinko Girl, American expat Carson Smith and movie-maker Ryuji Tanaka revealed their personal stories and motivations. The unexpected disappearance of the mysterious central character, Misa Hiyami led them to journey across Japan to find the ultimate truth that has been eluding them about the true murderer of Sergey Ribery and Misa's true identity. Is she a victim of feudal society and unspeakable crimes, or is she....a cold-blood killer?

Author : Vann Chow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pachinko Girl written by Vann Chow and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was fifteen when she met him on the snowy mountain.He was a charming young man from the city and he swept her feet away.She moved to Tokyo for him full of hope.Then one day she found her betrayed, her own elder sister raped and murdered by the very man she loved.And not long after he was found dead in a ritual killing.To avoid being suspected, she had to disappear in the crowd.Three years on, an amateur documentary maker decided to investigate into his death, and Misa's doctor, a family acquaintance, was unusually enthusiastic about the project. He knew the man treated her like she was his own daughter and helped her established a life away from home in the big city when she had no one to turn to.But did he really help her? Or was he the one who caused everything in the first place?What really happened to her sister and her ex-boyfriend? And who still has secrets to hide?THE PACHINKO GIRL is the COMPLETE volume of the four-part crime thriller Tokyo Faces series.Reviews from Amazon readers:★★★★★ "Emotionally complex and filled with passion. I am sure it will captivate readers from East and West."★★★★★ "Vann has a unique knowledge of Japan."★★★★★ "An interesting and beautifully told tale about modern clashes of culture and human growth."★★★★★ "Vann Chow makes an impressive debut. Not only does she respect her reader in assisting them with the languages differences in a very comfortable and natural manner, she also knows how to weave a story of intrigue that blossoms in so many varying facets of topics that reading her story is both highly entertaining and mesmerizing. Highly recommended!"This book guarantees to run like a TV series and you won't want to put it down once you have started!

Author : Min Jin Lee
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446504386
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Food for Millionaires written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "mesmerizing" novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle (USA Today). Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away from the judgements of her parents' tight-knit community, but she soon finds that her Princeton economics degree isn't enough to rid her of ever-growing credit card debt and a toxic boyfriend. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth-but at what cost? Set in a city where millionaires scramble for the free lunches the poor are too proud to accept, this sharp-eyed epic of love, greed, and ambition is a compelling portrait of intergenerational strife, immigrant struggle, and social and economic mobility. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Author : Elisa Shua Dusapin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922585172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pachinko Parlour written by Elisa Shua Dusapin and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long. It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko in an apartment in an abandoned hotel and lying on the floor at her grandparents: daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. When they first arrived in Japan, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlour. Shiny is still open, drawing people in with its bright, flashing lights and promises of good fortune. And as Mieko and Claire gradually bond, their tender relationship growing, Mieko's determination to visit the pachinko parlour builds. The Pachinko Parlouris a nuanced and beguiling exploration of identity and otherness, unspoken histories, and the loneliness you can feel within a family. Crisp and enigmatic, Shua Dusapin's writing glows with intelligence.

Author : Ana Johns
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 148803513X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman in the White Kimono written by Ana Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption. In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.