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파친코 2
2017
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4.44
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어디에도 속하지 못했던 자이니치들의 도전과 생존의 역사 『파친코』 ‘역사가 우리를 망쳐 놨지만 그래도 상관없다.’ 이 강렬한 문장으로 시작되는 소설 『파친코』는 내국인이면서 끝내 이방인일 수밖에 없었던 자이니치(재일동포)들의 처절한 생애를 깊이 있는 필체로 담아낸, 작가 이민진의 혼이 담긴 수작이다. 한국계 1.5세인 미국 작가 이민진이 자이니치, 즉 재일동포의 존재를 처음 접한 것은 대학생이었던 1989년, 일본에서 자이니치들을 만났던 개신교 선교사의 강연을 들은 것이 계기가 되었다. 상승 욕구가 강한 재미동포들과 달리 많은 자이니치들이 일본의 사회적, 경제적 사다리 아래쪽에서 신음하고 있다는 사실을 알게 된 이민진은 그때부터 자이니치에 관해 관심을 가지게 되었다. 일본에서 직접 만난 자이니치들의 복잡하고도 광활한 인생에 겸허해진 이민진은 그때까지 써온 원고를 모두 버리고 책을 다시 쓰기 시작했다. 정체성과 인간의 가치에 관한 작가의 치열한 고민은 일제강점기부터 1980년대까지를 시대적 배경으로 하여, 부산 영도의 기형아 훈이, 그의 딸 선자, 선자가 일본으로 건너가 낳은 아들 노아와 모자수, 그리고 모자수의 아들인 솔로몬에 이르는, 4대에 걸친 핏줄의 역사를 탄생시켰다. 이민진은 그 치열한 역사를 통해 우리에게 고향과 타향, 개인의 정체성이란 과연 무엇인지 질문한다. 그리고 그 질문은 현란한 문체 대신 행간의 의미를 함축하며 담담하게 풀어나가는 서사에 녹아 전해진다.

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Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee
Author · 7 books

Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today. Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea. Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater). From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.

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