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Min Jin Lee Looks Back at ‘Pachinko’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen As part of its recent “100 Best Books of the 21st Century“ project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, Min Jin Lee joins …
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen
As part of its recent “100 Best Books of the 21st Century“ project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, Min Jin Lee joins Gilbert Cruz to discuss her novel, as well as the book she’s read the most times — George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.”
“I’m willing to say it’s the best English language novel, period,” Lee says. “George Eliot is probably the smartest girl in the room ever as a novelist. She really was a great thinker, a great logician, a great empathizer and also a great psychologist. She was all of those things. And she was also political. She understood so many aspects of the human mind and the way we interact with each other. And then, above all, I think she has a great heart.”
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