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‘It’s a captivating book… Min Jin Lee’s novel takes us through four generations and discovers each character’s identity and success. This is a powerful story about resilience and compassion’ Barack Obama.

Yongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the shores of the East Sea, a club-legged, mutilated man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple has one child together, their lovely daughter Sunja. When Sunja becomes pregnant by a married Yakub, the family is doomed. But then Isaac, a Christian minister, offers him a chance for salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.