The award-winning and New York Times bestselling novel: a dark and witty story of the rise of a young orphan in the surreal and tyrannical regime of North Korea.
'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story. Fantastic' ZADIE SMITH
'A stunning feat of imagination' STEPHEN KING
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
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Young Pak Jun Do is convinced he is special. He knows he must be the unique son of the master of the orphanage, and definitely not some kid dumped by his parents. Surely it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for regular beating?
He finds his calling when he is picked as a spy and kidnapper for his nation, the glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea.
He knows he must find his true love, Sun Moon, the greatest opera star who ever lived, before it's too late.
He knows he's not like the other prisoners in the camp.
He's going to get out soon.
Isn't he?
This hilarious, dark literary epic of a young boy's rise in North Korea from orphan to high-ranking officer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the National Book Award.
Adam Johnson is working on a new work of fiction.
'An addictive novel of daring ingenuity' DAVID MITCHELL
'Excavates the very meaning of life' NEW YORK TIMES
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Excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice * New York Times * An addictive novel of daring ingenuity; a study of sacrifice and freedom in a citizen-eating dynasty; and a timely reminder that anonymous victims of oppression are also human beings who love. A brave and impressive book. * David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas * You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story. Fantastic * Zadie Smith * Johnson unleashes a big, thrilling, and fully realized talent * Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad * Adam Johnson has managed to capture the atmosphere of this hermit kingdom better than any writer I've read ... The Orphan Master's Son deserves a place up there with dystopian classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World -- Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea * Guardian * An addictive novel of daring ingenuity; a study of sacrifice and freedom in a citizen-eating dynasty; and a timely reminder that anonymous victims of oppression are also human beings who love. A brave and impressive book -- David Mitchell, author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET A flamboyantly grim epic of totalitarianism... this larger-than-life, two-fisted picaresque manages to be a page-turner... an ambitious book * The Sunday Times * One of those books where you know you've found yourself in the hands of someone who can really tell a story, and is yet not naive about the artificiality of stories. The conceit is fantastic: a narration partly told through the loud speakers of the North Korean regime. -- Zadie Smith Fast-paced and intriguing.. this complex, multi-voiced narrative will remind some readers of David Mitchell's similarly inventive tale, Cloud Atlas... It is magnificent * Financial Times * What we have here are the ingredients of an across-the-board smash hit: sympathetic characters, an exotic, unknowable setting and a plot that will carry you along more convincingly than any of the fictions used by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. -- David Annand * Sunday Telegraph *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 40 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-552-77825-1 (9780552778251)
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Adam Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His second novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. His short story NIRVANA won the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014. He lives in San Francisco with his family.
