Nevertheless, she couldn't stop thinking of Hansu. Whenever she'd met him at the cove, the cloudless sky and jade-colored water would recede from her sight, leaving only the images of him, and she used to wonder how their time together could vanish so quickly. What amusing story would he tell her? What could she do to make him stay even a few minutes longer?

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"You have the kindest father in the land," her mother would often remark, and Sunja had been proud of his love for them, the way a child from a rich family might have been proud of her father's numerous bags of rice and piles of gold rings.

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At the table, he'd make sure that her mother had as much meat and fish on her plate as he did. In the summer, after finishing a long day, he'd tend to the watermelon patch because it was his wife's favorite fruit. Each winter, he'd procure fresh cotton wool to pad their jackets, and if there wasn't enough, he'd claim his own jacket didn't need new filling.

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One eternity later... he terminado de leer "Pachinko".

Me ha gustado bastante para lo que a priori podía llegar a pensar que podía disfrutar la historia de una saga familiar coreana 😄 Estaba preparado para que fuera un ladrillo y no lo ha sido para nada.

Mola mucho como la trama sirve para contar los periplos del pueblo coreano desde la dominación japonesa hasta casi final de siglo (tema del que no tenía ni pajolera idea), lo hace muy accesible e interesante (de verdad 😆)

He disfrutado sobre todo la primera parte, donde se centra en la vida de una madre e hija fuertes y abnegadas sobreviviendo en un mundo machista y lleno de privaciones. Muy crudo y cercano. En la última parte, con las generaciones más jóvenes, hay un cambio de tono que se me ha empezado a hacer un poco bola, pero en general está bastante guay.

A ver qué leo para desintoxicar un poco de los chismes familiares 🙂

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