National Bestseller
In this bestselling, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean
immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled
from a home they never knew.
"There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on,
because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."
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. Instead, she accepts