‘Pachinko’ author’s first book covers lives of Korean AmericansQuite a few prominent books are available about China and Japan written in English and widely loved by global readers.For the former country, there are “The Good Earth” by Pearl Buck, “Wild Swans” by Jung Chang, and “Red Star Over China”
Lee Min-jin examines tragedy of Koreans in early 20th centuryAfter author Park Wan-suh passed away in 2011, people worried that they would not be able to read new novels with such vivid scenes involving Koreans of the early and mid-20th century.They were plain wrong because writer Lee Min-jin, a 53-