Pachinko

Stunning! I only picked this up because it was 99p on sale, not having heard of it before, and was surprised to come on here and see it well and widely reviewed and so highly rated. Apparently I've been living under a rock.

Pachinko spans four generations of a Korean family living in Japan. It is huge in scope in that respect, but has a slice-of-life approach to detailing the goings-on of these characters and we truly get to see them at their best and worst. There isn't so much a plot as there is a story.

For a novel so big (mine said 500 pages!) it flew by surprisingly quickly. Highly recommended.