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(2012)
The Orphan Master's Son
2012 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (14)
by Adam Johnson
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—-a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—-and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his 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.”
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Totalitarianism, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Protected DAISY, Fiction, New York Times bestseller, nyt:hardcover_fiction=2012-02-11, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Thriller, orphans, large type booksPeople
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The Orphan Master's Son
2013?, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
in English
- 2012 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (8)
0812982622 9780812982626
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Das geraubte Leben des Waisen Jun Do
2013, Suhrkamp
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in German
- Erste Auflage
3518464256 9783518464250
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The Orphan Master’s Son
2013, Black Swan
Paperback
in English
- Black Swan edition (2)
0552778257 9780552778251
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The Orphan Master's Son
2013?, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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- 2012 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (6)
0812982622 9780812982626
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The Orphan Master's Son
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- 2012 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (14)
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The Orphan Master's Son
2012, Random House
Hardcover
in English
- First Edition (1)
0812992792 9780812992793
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his 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.
--http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/212862/
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- The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - review (The Guardian)
- A North Korean Soldier Finds His ‘Casablanca’ (The New York Times)
- Dear Leader (The New Yorker)
- Adam Johnson on ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’ (The Paris Review)
- Pulling back the curtain on North Korea - (BookPage)
- Adam Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel: review (The Telegraph)
- The Orphan Master's Son (Random House Books)
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