10632cam a2200601 4500 235322947 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679643999 0679643990 B004X6PRO6 Amazon e33255f5-4215-44f9-9c49-b608ed7540f6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 607191 OverDrive (Product ID) 212862 607191 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Johnson, Adam, 1967- The Orphan Master's Son [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2489kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.". Pulitzer Prize citation. HTML:"All of these elements--stylistic panache, technical daring, moral weight and an uncanny sense of the current moment--combine in Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, the single best work of fiction published in 2012. . . . The book's cunning, flair and pathos are testaments to the still-formidable power of the written word.". HTML:The Wall Street Journal. HTML:"The Orphan Master's Son performs an unusual form of sorcery, taking a frankly cruel and absurd reality and somehow converting it into a humane and believable fiction. It's an epic feat of story-telling. It's thrillingly written, and it's just thrilling period.". HTML:Zadie Smith, Los Angeles Times. HTML:"A great novel can take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That's the genius of The Orphan Master's Son. Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mâché creation that is North Korea and turned it into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable. This is a novel worth getting excited about, one which more than delivers on its pre-publication buzz... I haven't liked a new novel this much in years, and I want to share the simple pleasure of reading the book. But I also think it's an instructive lesson in how to paint a fictional world against a background of fact: The secret is research...It's this process of re-imagination that makes the fictional locale so real and gives the novel an impact you could never achieve with a thousand newspaper stories. Johnson has painted in indelible colors the nightmare of Kim's North Korea. When English readers want to understand what it was about -- how people lived and died inside a cult of personality that committed unspeakable crimes against its citizens -- I hope they will turn to this carefully documented story. The happy surprise is that they will find it such a page turner.". HTML:The Washington Post. HTML:"Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Master's Son is set in North Korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions spun by a dictator and his inner circle...Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity...We don't know what's really going on in that strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what it must be like can be found in this brilliant and timely novel.". HTML:Wall Street Journal. "A harrowing, clever, incomparable riff on life in Kim Jong Il's North Korea". HTML:San Francisco Chronicle. HTML:"Magnificently accomplished...Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, part romance, The Orphan Master's Son is made sturdy by research...but what makes it so absorbing isn't its documentary realism but the dark flight of the author's imagination...rich with a sense of discovery...The year is young, but The Orphan Master's Son has an early lead on novel of 2012". HTML:The Daily Beast. HTML:"Providing a rare glimpse into one of the world's least known countries, Adam Johnson weaves a tale of hardship, romance, and redemption in North Korea in The Orphan Master's Son.". HTML:National Geographic Traveler. "An incredibly vivid page-turner of a novel...Romance, coming-of-age tale, adventure and thriller all in one, this book is singular and not to be missed.". HTML:The Huffington Post, 10 Best January Must-Reads. HTML:"The death of Kim Jong Il couldn't have come at a better time for novelist Adam Johnson. The Orphan Master's Son is a richly textured political thriller about 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.". HTML:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Startling...Johnson's carefully layered story feels authentic...[He] writes light-footed prose, barely allowing harrowing glimpses of atrocity to register before accelerating onward. He resists the temptation to turn his subject matter into comic fodder, but never ignores the absurdity, provoking laughter with jagged edges that tends to die in your throat.". HTML:Newsday. "Johnson's novel accomplishes the seemingly impossible:. HTML:Publisher's Weekly, (STARRED REVIEW .) HTML:WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL <ul> <li>WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker</li> <li>The Washington Post</li> <li>Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly</li> <li>The Wall Street Journal</li> <li>Los Angeles Times</li> <li>San Francisco Chronicle</li> <li>Financial Times</li> <li>Newsweek/The Daily Beast</li> <li>The Plain Dealer</li> <li>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</li> <li>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Scott Turow, The Millions • Slate</li> <li>Salon</li> <li>BookPage</li> <li>Shelf Awareness "The single best work of fiction published [this year] . . . The book's cunning, flair and pathos are testaments to the still-formidable power of the written word."--The Wall Street Journal 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 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 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." Praise for The Orphan Master's Son "An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."--Pulitzer Prize citation "A daring and remarkable novel."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Gripping . . . Deftly blending adventure, surreal comedy and Casablanca-style romance, the novel takes readers on a jolting ride through an Orwellian landscape of dubious identity and dangerous doublespeak."--San Jose Mercury News "This is a novel worth getting excited about. . . . Adam Johnson has taken the papier-mâché creation that is North Korea and turned it into a real and riveting place that readers will find unforgettable."--The Washington Post "[A] brilliant and timely novel."--The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable and heartbreaking . . . To [the] very short list of exceptional novels that also serve a humanitarian purpose The Orphan Master's Son must now be added."--The New Republic "A triumph of imagination . . . [Grade:] A."--Entertainment Weekly "A spellbinding saga of subverted identity and an irrepressible love."--Vogue Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.</li> </ul> From the Trade Paperback edition.. Media Type: eBook. Pulitzer Prize. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Notable Books for Adults. 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