Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
3 有用 ZZ 2020-05-06 08:32:10
Min Jin Lee非常会讲故事。刚开个头,我就完全被吸引了。随着故事几根线的发展,人物形象逐渐丰满起来。她讲故事有一种魅力,就是不知不觉就已经听了几个小时了,听到最后一个小时的时候,很舍不得,不想就这样结束了。这就是生活,时而微笑,时而愤怒,最多的是无奈。虽然比起她的另一本更加轰动文坛的Pachinko,这本书没有跨时代的荡气回肠,但是也是让我爱不释手。拍成电影又会是另一种震撼的。
0 有用 either...or 2021-12-03 18:33:15
文筆很一般,故事寫的很一般,看得頭疼,目測類似little fires everywhere套路,老美真喜歡這種雞湯小說啊 弃了,人生太短,我还是留给好书吧
0 有用 Kai的奇幻旅程 2023-06-23 17:37:41
Casey Han就是每一位平凡大众啊,来自没有任何背景甚至低于平庸的家庭,对传统价值观的排斥和来自移民家庭的自卑和要强、想要实现财富自由但又有极强的自尊心,等到自己所追求的事情一步步达成时,却又发觉那不是自己想要的而选择放弃。所以阶级的翻越不止是关乎学历和职业地位,还需要一代两代三代人不断迭代的情绪价值和心境转换,说到底,就是寻找自己到底是谁,这个永恒不变的伪命题。就像这个故事的最后,兜兜转转,... Casey Han就是每一位平凡大众啊,来自没有任何背景甚至低于平庸的家庭,对传统价值观的排斥和来自移民家庭的自卑和要强、想要实现财富自由但又有极强的自尊心,等到自己所追求的事情一步步达成时,却又发觉那不是自己想要的而选择放弃。所以阶级的翻越不止是关乎学历和职业地位,还需要一代两代三代人不断迭代的情绪价值和心境转换,说到底,就是寻找自己到底是谁,这个永恒不变的伪命题。就像这个故事的最后,兜兜转转,所有出场人物的最终结局与他们出生时即定的阶级并无翻天覆地的变化。或许韩裔美籍作者李敏金通过几个跨越两代的韩裔移民家庭的故事,传递出一个核心讯息:做自己,自己去赋予人生意义,因为出身和外在世界我们无法改变。 (展开)
2 有用 藍襪子 2020-02-29 18:04:18
全書接近過半的時候,看到「1997」,才意識到故事發生時間是上世紀九十年代後半頁。可是,書中人物的困頓與掙扎,到今天我還能在自己和身邊的人身上看到。
2 有用 甜绿 2018-10-16 23:27:36
回来的第二天就去买了这本书,如果不是因为搬家我可能三天就会读完了,太好看了啊,好会写!!! 然后九月的最后一个周日见到了作者本人!啊 Casey Han就是她自己啊!
0 有用 瑞尔 2024-03-23 11:19:41 北京
Soooo many characters, but I managed to tell them apart and remember them (mostly). That shows Min Jin Lee is a great storyteller. I can understand why some people don't like the (im)moral elements in... Soooo many characters, but I managed to tell them apart and remember them (mostly). That shows Min Jin Lee is a great storyteller. I can understand why some people don't like the (im)moral elements in the story. (展开)
0 有用 Lia 2023-10-17 23:32:45 美国
故事还行,唯一不喜欢她妈妈那段不知道想表达啥
0 有用 Kai的奇幻旅程 2023-06-23 17:37:41
Casey Han就是每一位平凡大众啊,来自没有任何背景甚至低于平庸的家庭,对传统价值观的排斥和来自移民家庭的自卑和要强、想要实现财富自由但又有极强的自尊心,等到自己所追求的事情一步步达成时,却又发觉那不是自己想要的而选择放弃。所以阶级的翻越不止是关乎学历和职业地位,还需要一代两代三代人不断迭代的情绪价值和心境转换,说到底,就是寻找自己到底是谁,这个永恒不变的伪命题。就像这个故事的最后,兜兜转转,... Casey Han就是每一位平凡大众啊,来自没有任何背景甚至低于平庸的家庭,对传统价值观的排斥和来自移民家庭的自卑和要强、想要实现财富自由但又有极强的自尊心,等到自己所追求的事情一步步达成时,却又发觉那不是自己想要的而选择放弃。所以阶级的翻越不止是关乎学历和职业地位,还需要一代两代三代人不断迭代的情绪价值和心境转换,说到底,就是寻找自己到底是谁,这个永恒不变的伪命题。就像这个故事的最后,兜兜转转,所有出场人物的最终结局与他们出生时即定的阶级并无翻天覆地的变化。或许韩裔美籍作者李敏金通过几个跨越两代的韩裔移民家庭的故事,传递出一个核心讯息:做自己,自己去赋予人生意义,因为出身和外在世界我们无法改变。 (展开)
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2023-03-16 15:12:31 上海
文笔一般,故事性也很一般,而且我本身也很难relate这种藤校毕业在投行工作的“高级人才”搞砸自己人生的故事
0 有用 我只有两只脚 2023-01-28 18:55:18 云南
不好看啊… //看的是2022出版的版本,不知道豆瓣审核为什么不过