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The Orphan Principal'due south Son: A Novel (Hardcover)
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"Sometimes nosotros say that a book tries to exist too many things. This idea-provoking novel is many things -- an chance tale, an exam of identity and the nature of the self, a meta-narrative, a political novel, a love story, a survivor story, and more -- and it succeeds on all counts. Like the works of David Mitchell, The Orphan Chief's Son is at one time a joy to read, a challenging work, and, ultimately, a terrific and satisfying story."
— Mark LaFramboise, Politics & Prose Books and Java Store, Washington, DC
Jan 2012 Indie Next Listing
"Sometimes we say that a book tries to exist too many things. This thought-provoking novel is many things - an adventure tale, an examination of identity and the nature of the self, a meta-narrative, a political novel, a dear story, a survivor story, and more - and it succeeds on all counts. Like the works of David Mitchell, The Orphan Master'due south Son is at once a joy to read, a challenging piece of work, and ultimately, a terrific and satisfying story."
— Mark LaFramboise, Politics & Prose Books and Java Shop, Washington, DC
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's almost mysterious dictatorship.
"Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you encounter the sheet on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here."—The Washington Post
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost female parent—a vocalizer "stolen" to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work military camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state presently recognize the male child'southward loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself "a humble denizen of the greatest nation in the earth," Jun Exercise rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, capricious violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay live. Driven to the absolute limit of what whatever human being existence could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to salve the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary extra "so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like."
Part incoherent thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic honey, The Orphan Main's Son is as well a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North korea rife with hunger, corruption, and coincidental cruelty merely also esprit, stolen moments of beauty, and love.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL Volume CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
Named 1 OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE Yr by more a dozen publications, includingThe Washington Post • Amusement Weekly • The Wall Street Periodical • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for The Orphan Primary's Son
"An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the about intimate spaces of the human heart."—Pulitzer Prize citation
"Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that non only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North korea, but one that besides excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Rich with a sense of discovery . . .The Orphan Master's Son has an early lead on novel of [the year]."—The Daily Beast
"This is a novel worth getting excited nigh."—The Washington Post
"[A] ripping piece of fiction that is likewise an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory."—Elle
About the Writer
Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Orphan Main'due south Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Accolade and a finalist for the National Volume Critics Circumvolve Accolade. Johnson's other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Accolade, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library'due south Immature Lions Award. His previous books are Emporium, a brusque story collection, and the novel Parasites Similar Us. Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his married woman and children.
Praise For…
"An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journeying into the depths of totalitarian North korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human centre." —Pulitzer Prize citation
"All of these elements—stylistic brio, technical daring, moral weight and an uncanny sense of the current moment—combine in Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master'south Son, the single all-time work of fiction published in 2012. . . . The book's cunning, flair and pathos are testaments to the still-formidable ability of the written word." —The Wall Street Journal
"The Orphan Chief's Son performs an unusual grade of sorcery, taking a frankly vicious and absurd reality and somehow converting it into a humane and believable fiction. It'southward an ballsy feat of story-telling. It'south thrillingly written, and it'southward but thrilling period." —Zadie Smith, Los Angeles Times
"A great novel tin take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That's the genius of The Orphan Master'south Son. Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mâché creation that is Democratic people's republic of korea and turned information technology into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable. This is a novel worth getting excited nearly, one which more than than delivers on its pre-publication buzz… I haven't liked a new novel this much in years, and I want to share the uncomplicated pleasure of reading the book. But I also retrieve it's an instructive lesson in how to paint a fictional world against a groundwork of fact: The underground is enquiry…It's this procedure of re-imagination that makes the fictional locale so real and gives the novel an impact you could never achieve with a thou newspaper stories. Johnson has painted in indelible colors the nightmare of Kim's North korea. When English language readers want to sympathise what it was virtually — how people lived and died inside a cult of personality that committed unspeakable crimes against its citizens — I promise they will turn to this carefully documented story. The happy surprise is that they will find information technology such a page turner." — The Washington Mail service
"Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Principal's Son is set in Democratic people's republic of korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions spun by a dictator and his inner circle…Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible author who tin pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity…We don't know what's actually going on in that strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what information technology must be like tin can exist found in this brilliant and timely novel." —Wall Street Journal
"A harrowing, clever, unequalled riff on life in Kim Jong Il's N Korea" —San Francisco Chronicle
"Magnificently accomplished…Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, part romance, The Orphan Master'due south Son is made sturdy by research…but what makes information technology and then absorbing isn't its documentary realism but the dark flight of the author'due south imagination…rich with a sense of discovery…The year is young, but The Orphan Master'southward Son has an early lead on novel of 2012" — The Daily Beast
"Providing a rare glimpse into one of the world's to the lowest degree known countries, Adam Johnson weaves a tale of hardship, romance, and redemption in North korea in The Orphan Main'southward Son." —National Geographic Traveler
"An incredibly vivid folio-turner of a novel…Romance, coming-of-age tale, adventure and thriller all in ane, this book is atypical and non to be missed." —The Huffington Post, 10 Best January Must-Reads
"The death of Kim Jong Il couldn't have come at a better fourth dimension for novelist Adam Johnson. The Orphan Master's Son is a richly textured political thriller most the hidden world of North Korea with all of its misery, violence and defiant acts of love under impossible circumstances. Stunning and evocative imagery abounds on every page." —Pittsburgh Mail-Gazette
"Startling…Johnson'due south carefully layered story feels authentic...[He] writes low-cal-footed prose, barely allowing harrowing glimpses of atrocity to register before accelerating onward. He resists the temptation to turn his field of study matter into comic fodder, simply never ignores the absurdity, provoking laughter with jagged edges that tends to die in your pharynx." — Newsday
"Johnson'southward novel accomplishes the seemingly impossible: an American author has masterfully rendered the mysterious world of North korea with the soul and savvy of a native, from its orphanages and its fishing boats to the kitchens of its high-ranking commanders. While oppressive propaganda echoes throughout, the tone never slides into caricature; if anything, the story unfolds with phenomenal empathy for those living in constant fear of imprisonment—or worse—simply who manage to maintain their humanity against all odds. . . . Johnson juxtaposes the barbarous atrocities of the regime with the tenderness of beauty, love, and hope." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] fantastical, careening tale…Informed past all-encompassing research and travel to perhaps the near secretive nation on earth, Johnson has created a remarkable novel that encourages the willing suspension of atheism.…Johnson winningly employs dissimilar voices, with the propagandizing national radio station serving as a mad Greek chorus. Part adventure, part coming-of-historic period tale, and part romance, The Orphan Master's Son is a triumph on every level." —Booklist (starred review)
"Readers who enjoy a fast-paced political thriller will welcome this wild ride through the amazingly conflicted earth that exists inside the heavily guarded confines of North Korea. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (starred review)
"[A] vivid, violent portrait of a nation…[a] macabrely realistic, politically savvy, satirically spot-on saga. Johnson's metathriller, spiked with gory intrigues and romantic subplots, is a ripping slice of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory in a world where everyone's "a survivor who has zip to live for." — Elle
"Ambitious, violent, audacious—and stunningly adept."—O Magazine
"Adam Johnson has pulled off literary abracadabra, kickoff by setting his novel in North korea, a country that few of the states can imagine, and then by producing such compelling characters whose lives unfold at breakneck speed. I was engrossed right to the amazing conclusion. The result is pure gold, a terrific novel." —Abraham Verghese
"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 as well homo beings who beloved. A brave and impressive book."—David Mitchell
"I've never read anything like information technology. This is truly an amazing reading experience, a tremendous achievement. I could spend days talking almost how much I dearest this volume. It sounds like overstatement, merely no. The Orphan Chief'south Son is a masterpiece." —Charles Bock
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