The Orphan Master's Son
2012 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (14)
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Contributions
- Barbara M. Bachman - Book Designer
Publication
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York
Language
English
Word Count
114,000 words, Guess
Page Count
456 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveorphanmastersson0000john_m0d8
- ISBN-100812982622
- ISBN-139780812982626
- Goodreads44631668
- Library of Congress Control Number2011013410
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number890261318
- OCLC Control Number805944399
- Better World BooksW8-BKB-613
- Open LibraryOL26388359M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3610.O3 O76 2012
- LCCPS3610.O3 O76 2013
Description
The Orphan Master's Son is a 2012 novel by American author Adam Johnson. It deals with intertwined themes of propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea. The novel was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Description
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.” (back cover)
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