The Pachinko Parlor by De Elisa Shua Dusapin ePub Download

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“The Pachinko Parlor” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents’: daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by.The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven’t been back since. When they first arrived in Japan, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlor. Shiny is still open, drawing people in with its bright, flashing lights and promises of good fortune. And as Mieko and Claire gradually bond, a tender relationship growing, Mieko’s determination to visit the pachinko parlor builds.The Pachinko Parlor is a nuanced and beguiling exploration of identity and otherness, unspoken histories, and the loneliness you can feel among family. Crisp and enigmatic, Shua Dusapin’s writing glows with intelligence.

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I’m aware of two things about this read, two very strong responses that wouldn’t be elicited by any other read I’ve encountered this year: 1) Food looms very, very large in my experience of a story. This book, it’s Claire and her inability to enjoy any food she encounters in Japan. 2) Author Shua Dusapin builds very intricate clockworks of interdependent imagery to support her stories of women without pleasure in the worlds they’re in. The recurring fish-object images in this book join Winter in Sokcho’s cold, echoing spaces. I mean, when a child’s desire to act on the world is performed in explicit imitation of a cleaner fish, and a train pulling into a station summons from its immensity and speed the idea of a fish in Claire, our main character, then the author’s going about her business with a degree of bravura that demands to be noted. As to whether it worked, I cannot say. I noticed it…I never thought of not noticing it…but derived nothing but the most facile conclusions from its obviousness. Me, or the choice? A case is readily made for either.