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25 Best Historical Fiction Books to Take You Back in Time
Travel widely without ever leaving your couch.

 

BY LIZZ SCHUMER
Mar 30, 2021

 

Reading the best books can feel like time travel, no matter when the story is set. Most bookworms have experienced the unique disorientation of sitting down to read and only emerging from their book-induced reverie hours later, having let the world pass by while they explored whole new worlds in those pages. Historical fiction can compound this effect, especially when it's based on real-life events. History buffs may already know the joys of learning about the past through a fictionalized retelling, but even those who fell asleep during that class in high school may want to give the genre another try. The best historical fiction doesn't read like a textbook at all, but a gripping account of a moment in time through another person's eyes. And especially in the case of books about women, BIPOC and other marginalized or underrepresented voices, reading historical fiction can broaden your mind with fresh perspectives on historical happenings or even accounts of entire events that aren't taught in the classroom. There's also a great read for every time period, from the very earliest blush of human history to the very recent past. Give these wonderful reads a try and then hop on over to the GH Book Club for more literary standouts... 

 

15 Pachinko

 

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This sweeping epic that spans four generations of a Korean immigrant family starts with a pregnant teenage Sunja making the difficult choice to reject her son's powerful but duplicitous father in favor of a sickly but kind minister. Her decision ripples through the ages in this stunning story of sacrifice, loyalty and ambition.

 

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g35904358/best-historical-fiction-books/

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The dreams and hopes of four generations of Koreans in Japan recounted in "Pachinko", by Min Jin Lee

 

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Released on January 12 in France, Min Jin Lee's novel, Pachinko , is a success abroad. We discover the life of four generations of Koreans living in Japan against a backdrop of the Korean War and Japanese occupation.

 

Pachinko tells a story of courage. That of Sunja, charmed by a rich foreigner in the 1930s, who becomes pregnant but learns that she cannot marry him. He offers her to be his "Korean wife", his unofficial wife, since he already has one in Japan and two daughters.

 

Sunja then has two choices: accept his offer or dishonor her family. She chose a third: to marry the Christian pastor Isak, passing through the boarding house managed by Sunja's mother. Once the marriage is formalized, Sunja leaves her small Korean village to go to Japan with her husband.

 

The question of integration

For more than 600 pages, Pachinko tells the story of these Koreans living in Japan who are trying to fit into the mold. But how do you survive in a country that doesn't accept you? How to build oneself in the face of the obstacles that arise? The fate of Sunja and her family are shaken up like pachinko balls, a game of chance in the land of the rising sun. 

 

Pachinko is a moving novel about Japanese-Korean relations and the difficulty of finding your place in a foreign country. Thanks to Sunja and her family, whom we follow over four generations, we discover the Korean War, the Japanese occupation, the bombings, poverty; we wonder about the question of identity.

 

Research that pays

Throughout the pages, Min Jin Lee, who has done a lot of research and met many Koreans living in Japan, accurately recounts the life of expatriates, international finance, the police, poker, the pachinko, the colonial history of Christendom ...

Sold in several million copies worldwide, praised by Barack Obama, this bestseller will be adapted in series by Apple, which bought the rights, presented in three languages and on several continents. For the moment, no release date has been announced. Hurry to read the novel before seeing it adapted on the screen!

 

https://www.lamontagne.fr/tulle-19000/loisirs/les-reves-et-les-espoirs-de-quatre-generations-de-coreens-au-japon-racontes-dans-pachinko-de-min-jin-lee_13931615/

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5 minutes ago, leeminhosny said:

OMG @Nikaa94 is he LMH but his eyes seem so different ?


 

yeah,,, his eyes are different! Maybe he got a makeup to look very different. Also he has bangs??? It feels like he is Noa! It doesn’t feel like Hansu 

 


 

LMH has big eyes, but in this pic his eyes look smaller 

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1 minute ago, leeminhosny said:

I think he isn't LMH maybe it is april fool 


the fan who posted this picture seems certain that this is LMH because they saw LMH and he passed by them??:rubchin:


 

Maybe they they gave him makeup to make his eyes smaller 

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8 EPIC FAMILY SAGAS ON AUDIO

 

Like many audiobook lovers, I adore family sagas. There’s just something special about starting an audiobook that you can stay with for multiple generations through several decades. I love the drama, suspense, and heartbreak of these stories, which have quickly become some of my favorite books. Here are eight audiobooks about family sagas.

 

PACHINKO BY MIN JIN LEE, NARRATED BY ALLISON HIROTO

 

After discovering herself pregnant with her lover’s baby, Sunja agrees to marry a pastor and move to Japan from her home in Korea. But she finds life is difficult for Korean people in pre-WWII Japan. There, she and her family face discrimination and poverty, but they still hold on to hope. Performed by Allison Hiroto, this audiobook is an incredible story you won’t soon forget.

 

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https://bookriot.com/audiobooks-about-family-sagas/

 

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the fan who posted this picture seems certain that this is LMH because they saw LMH and he passed by them??


 

Maybe they they gave him makeup to make his eyes smaller 

If he is LMH so he is definetely Noah 

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Can we get some videos or proof that the new picture is LMH?? :joy:

 

I don’t wanna fan girl wrong actor :relieved: all my fan girling goes to Minho Oppa 

Just now, leeminhosny said:

If he is LMH so he is definetely Noah 

Yup!!
 

that’s definitely not Hansu!! 
 

this could mean LMH wrapped up Hansu scenes and will film Noa until April 17:hypehype: =======> we see More Lee Min Ho 

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No more pics??

 

please release more pics

 

i wanna see more clear pics

 

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what’s he wearing? Kimono? Wow his hairstyle is so good, a totally different vibe ,,,,

 

Noaaaaaaaaa Opppaaaaaaaa:elated::heythere:

 

 

 

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Korean super star Lee Min-ho has a different look this week filming Apple TV+’s  four-generation-Korean saga Pachinko in Vancouver. Quite different from the suits and matching fedoras  he wore as wealthy fishbroker, Koh Hansu in Steveston.

 

http://hollywoodnorth.buzz/2021/04/series-lee-min-ho-filming-apple-tvs-4-generation-korean-saga-pachinko-at-temple-in-vancouver-suburb.html

 

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Lee Min Ho in Pachinko: change of look with traditional clothes leaks

 

New stills of Lee Min Ho on Pachinko's set raise mystery about the character he's playing on the series.

 

Lee Min Ho continues filming the Pachinko series in Canada . Since he arrived in the North American country, fans of the Korean actor have been watching his movements on the set. Thanks to some images captured on March 30, a different look could be seen from the one that had been leaked weeks before.

 

Pachinko is an eight-episode drama produced by Apple TV + . The script adapts Min Jin Lee's novel of the same name about a family that is displaced from Korea to Japan and then settles in the United States. It is set between 1910 and 1989.

 

The series culminated shoots in South Korea late last year and then moved to Vancouver. When Lee Min Ho began filming in the area, local fans captured the costumes that characterize him as Hansu's wealthy character: formal suit, hat, and carefully styled hair.

 

However, recent photos from the set show a total change to said image. The 'King of Hallyu' is now seen wearing simple traditional garb and his hair is tucked down.

 

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Why this characterization? Some fans think it would be a flashback to Hansu's past , as the young man was very poor before he met who would give him the Yakuza connections.

 

Another theory suggests that Lee Min Ho would have a double character and would play Noa, the son of Hansu and Sunja. As it has not yet been published which actor would take this role in the series, it is a question that arises among the fans.

 

https://larepublica.pe/cultura-asiatica/2021/04/01/lee-min-ho-en-pachinko-se-filtra-cambio-de-look-con-ropa-tradicional/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

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With these images, it is impossible to recognize that this is the Korean handsome Lee Min Ho

 

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Many people were surprised to see Lee Min Ho's new look on the set of "Pachinko".

Today (1/4), some new photos of Lee Min Ho in Canada were shared. In the photo, a 33-year-old actor in a Japanese-style outfit strides at the filming location. The dark outfit that Lee Min Ho wear makes many people not recognize his idol. It is known that this time Lee Min Ho tries his hand with a austere image, so it is different from the previous characters he has played.

 

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Officially confirmed to participate in the project "Pachinko" from October 2020, Lee Min Ho had time to record in Korea. He then went to Canada to serve filming overseas. You have to undergo quarantine and testing before starting work.

The 33-year-old actor devoted himself to filming this work despite the weather.

"Pachinko" is a film adapted from the novel of the same name, set in the period of Korean occupation by Japan. The film tells the difficult life and the rise of Korean families in exile in the US and Japan. In the film, Lee Min Ho takes on the role of a Korean-born businessman living in the country, having relationships with the gangster to get rich and build power.

 

https://ngoisao.vn/dien-anh/toan-canh/voi-nhung-hinh-anh-nay-khong-the-nhan-ra-day-la-my-nam-han-quoc-lee-min-ho-321782.htm

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"Pachinko" is the title of a Korean-American novel under the theme of Koreans that Apple, a famous U.S. company, poured nearly 1 trillion won in production costs into eight episodes since last fall. Although popular Korean dramas are sometimes introduced on Netflix, "Pachinko" is completely different.

 

http://www.koreadaily.com/news/read.asp?art_id=9226101

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