Min Jin Lee's new novel takes on the tyranny of ambition
Pachinko author talks education, class and the Australian 'social experiment' behind American Hagwon
Pachinko author Min Jin Lee has returned with American Hagwon, a novel that follows a Korean family from Seoul to Sydney and California after the Asian financial crisis, and takes aim at the promise that education can protect people from being 'made obsolete' under capitalism. In an interview, Lee praised Australia's social institutions as a contrast to the United States.