Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Fiction, Families, Literary, Cultural Heritage
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought.
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Epic, prestige, meticulous and overwhelming.
We read them all: the case for is priya.pages's, funniest is yuki.reads's. Marked below.
Four generations and not one wasted chapter. The book is generous the way a grandmother is generous: without asking if you deserve it.
Four generations and not one of them wasted. Lee writes history as something that happens to families at dinner.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
A vivid, immersive multigenerational saga about life for Koreans in Japan is a tale of resilience and poignant emotional conflict
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On Open Library, 48 have read it and 408 want to.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
18 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Ironists.
Answer first; then see how everyone, and your circle, split.
“Is it too big for its own story?”
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“Is Pachinko prestige bait?”
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“Is Pachinko too earnest?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
