Pachinko — Min Jin Lee (2017)

Pachinko is Min Jin Lee's most ambitious work, chronicling four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989, starting with a teenage girl's pregnancy. It masterfully reveals how gender, ethnicity, and class compound to constrain individual lives, while showcasing extraordinary resilience. Faster than the typical historical saga in narrative pace, it has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, proving its sweeping appeal and solidifying its status as a definitive exploration of the Korean-Japanese experience.