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Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee is the Korean-American novelist behind Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017, National Book Award finalist). The Pachinko Apple TV+ adaptation is one of the strongest novel-to-screen productions of the 2020s.
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2007-2017
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Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee 2007 review. A Princeton graduate and Korean-American daughter of Queens immigrants in the early-2000s New York finance world. Min Jin Lee's debut and the Pachinko predecessor.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 2017 review. Four generations of a Korean family in twentieth-century Japan, beginning with Sunja's pregnancy by a married Korean gangster in 1933 Busan. The Apple TV+ adaptation source and one of the canonical contemporary Korean-American literary novels.
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