What struck me the most about Pachinko was how much she was able to sustain the precision and control over the prose despite the huge scope and size of the world she was working with. I often find that works of this scope have parts where the characterization slips a bit or the prose veers towards the generic or the plot kind of loses focus. But not Lee. You really get the sense that every word and every sentence had to fight for its place in the book. Impressively tight for a novel of any size; stunning for a novel of this size.
"we’re all really millionaires because we are given this grace, this unmerited favor of gifts and talents. So every character has a kind of extraordinary gift. Nobody’s actually poor if you really know what your gifts are"
Seriously? When she burns all her millions I'll believe her.
What struck me the most about Pachinko was how much she was able to sustain the precision and control over the prose despite the huge scope and size of the world she was working with. I often find that works of this scope have parts where the characterization slips a bit or the prose veers towards the generic or the plot kind of loses focus. But not Lee. You really get the sense that every word and every sentence had to fight for its place in the book. Impressively tight for a novel of any size; stunning for a novel of this size.
"we’re all really millionaires because we are given this grace, this unmerited favor of gifts and talents. So every character has a kind of extraordinary gift. Nobody’s actually poor if you really know what your gifts are"
Seriously? When she burns all her millions I'll believe her.
I don't know what she has done with her money, but she did spend many years working on fiction without being rich.