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Original Title: The Orphan Master's Son
ISBN: 0812992792 (ISBN13: 9780812992793)
Edition Language: English URL http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812992793
Setting: Korea, Democratic People's Republic of North Korea(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of) Pyongyang(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of)
Literary Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2013), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2013)

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An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress "so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like." Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master's Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master's Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today's greatest writers. --jacket description

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Title:The Orphan Master's Son
Author:Adam Johnson
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 443 pages
Published:January 10th 2012 by Random House
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Asia

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There are many books I've loved, many writers I've admired, some whose talent has been awe-inspiring. But it's not often that I read a novel wondering how the hell did he/she do that? This is one of those times. How did Adam Johnson imagine his way into the dystopia of Kim Jong-Il's North Korea and create a world so real to the reader that when Americans show up, they seem oddly alien? The book is darkly comic and desperately sad, always teetering on the brink of complete absurdity but true in

UPDATE... On sale for $1.99 today! This tale has a pervasively ominous tone and doesn't have a story book ending. If you're a casual reader who's in it just for enjoyment, skip it - unless you find the whole idea of what goes on in North Korea rather fascinating. This is fictional, but the details are based on real accounts from survivors and escapees. Blew my doors off.---------------This novel was mesmerizing to me, like a nightmare that is so bizarre that, despite its ugliness, you don't

In a stunning feat of imagination, Johnson puts us inside Jun Do (yep, John Doe), a North Korean orphan who stumbles from poverty to a job as body double for a Hero of the Eternal Revolution. The closed world of North Korea revealed herewhere businessmen are conscripted to work in the rice fields and the ruthless Kim Jong-il is still the Dear Leadergoes beyond anything Orwell ever imagined. The Orphan Masters Son veers from cold terror to surrealistic humor with ease, and succeeds as both a

This very long, very dark, and highly imaginative work by Adam Johnson forces upon the reader a series of distasteful sensations, only a few of which are horror, fury, hatred, injustice, and revenge. But by the end, one also experiences hope, compassion, sincerity, integrity, and love. Thoughts surface, submerge, roil in the mind during the days spent reading this huge novel, leaving one as drained and unsettled after a session with it as if one had eaten bitterness. Welcome to North Korea. If

I'll preface this review by saying that, in many ways, this is an excellent novel. It's intelligent, rich in symbolism and metaphor, and takes place in one of the most interesting contemporary settings an author could choose. It has many moments of terrific insight regarding one of the strangest and most tragic places on Earth. I can see why it's getting so much attention.All of that aside, this book did not work for me. It doesn't read like a book that was so good that they had to award it the

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