![]() ![]() It reminds me of the historical television dramas I grew up with – Roots, Tenko, The Forsyte Saga. ![]() It’s a vast, sumptuous, dynastic political TV series of the kind scarcely made any more, complete with swooning strings from Nico Muhly’s score. This adaptation (Apple TV+) brings to life a Korea you would never have gleaned from Squid Game or K-pop. He meant the so-called Zainichi – Koreans, often compelled to leave their homeland after losing their livelihoods under colonial rule and winding up uprooted, anxious second-class citizens in Japan. Tash Aw in the Guardian praised the novel as “a rich tribute to a people that history seems intent on erasing”. It journeys through colonial Korea, the second world war, the allied occupation of Japan, the Korean war, to Japan’s high-growth period – all refracted through the prism of one family. ![]() When Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel, Pachinko, was published in 2017, it was hailed as a sweeping historical epic spanning a rich era of modern east Asian history. ![]()
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