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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: 'Pachinko' (Rerun)
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34:36Now PlayingSummer is slipping away and we are on break this week. But we have a fantastic rerun for you our conversation with Min Jin Lee from last summer, when her book "Pachinko" was named one of the "100 Best Books of the 21st Century () " by a New York Times Book Review panel. She spoke about 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. Without question,” 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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