The Pachinko Parlor

Claire travels from Switzerland to Japan to visit her Korean grandparents, who run a small pachinko business. Her grandparents left Korea when they were young and never returned, not even for a visit. She plans to go on a trip with her grandparents to their homeland, but they are not interested. She also tutors ten-year-old Mieko while she is visiting her grandparents. Mieko's mother wants her daughter to attend school in Switzerland as she did, so she needs to practice French.

I liked the atmosphere that this novel creates. And although there is tension in the air, this is still a quiet novel. I loved that.

Pachinko Parlor was my first novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, and this wonderful novel was a pleasant surprise. I can’t wait to read something else by this author.

 

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Details:

• author: Elisa Shua Dusapin
  
• full title: The Pachinko Parlor
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: France, Korea, Japan
  
• topics: #Japan, #Korea, #pachinko
  
• publisher: Open Letter
  
• publish date: 27.09.2022
  
• pages: 176
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙.5

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About the Author: 

Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France in 1992 and raised in Paris, Seoul and Switzerland. Winter in Sokcho (Hiver à Sokcho) is her first novel. Published in 2016 to wide acclaim, it was awarded the Prix Robert Walser and the Prix Régine Desforges and has been translated into six languages.