American Hagwon

‘A profoundly generous and humane novel about duty, family, and the dream of a better life … I was fully absorbed by the fates of the Koh family’ Douglas Stuart, author of John of John
‘An immersive, engrossing novel … brilliantly imagined … This is panorama told in brilliant detail’ Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island
‘Enchanting and elegant … A novel as subtle as it is sweeping, as dazzlingly intelligent as it is emotionally breathtaking. I adored it’ Elif Shafak, author of There Are Rivers In The Sky
‘An absolutely propulsive read. If your faith in either humanity or storytelling has dimmed, American Hagwon will make it blaze again’ Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of Friends
‘I adored this incredibly beautiful story … exquisitely written, American Hagwon is an absolute joy that you will take with you for the rest of your life’ Joanna Cannon, author of An Unlikely Visitor
‘An effortlessly immersive epic … She writes social novels in the tradition of George Eliot, Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope’ Bookseller
‘Min Jin Lee has crafted another epic where the ties of family twist and fray but rarely part’ TIME
‘Lee has constructed a world so rich and intricate that you forget you’re reading … A stunning achievement’ Tara Westover, author of Educated
‘Beautifully crafted … Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn’t want to end’ Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
‘I read huge swaths of this book with my heart in my throat and found myself cheering’ Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red At The Bone
‘After 600 pages, how could I want more? And yet I did, and that is the magic of Min Jin Lee’ Tahmima Anam, author of Uprising
‘Magnificent – a deep education from a master storyteller … A work of grace and beauty’ Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
‘Lee has written another masterpiece … a story of how the ongoing demand for success can distort how we live and love’ Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of America, U.S.A.

Min Jin Lee is an author and journalist. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was named as one of the ‘Top 10 Novels of the Year’ by The Times and USA Today. She wrote Pachinko whilst living in Tokyo, and now lives in New York with her family.

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