Pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 490 pages.
Following members of the family from the early 1900s through 1989, Pachinko follows the descendants of  an aging fisherman and his wife. They are able to arrange a marriage for their only surviving son, Hoonie, born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot, to the youngest daughter of poor farmer. Yangjin, the bride, and her daughter, Sunja, form the center of the sweeping epic.

Deftly written with characters you really care about, Pachinko tells the story of Koreans living under Japanese rule through the war, and then under the revised rules after the second World War and the Korean War.