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An edition of The Orphan Master's Son (2012)

The Orphan Master's Son

Random House Readers' Circle Edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.20 ·
  • 10 Ratings
  • 66 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

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.
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Totalitarianism, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, New York Times bestseller, nyt:hardcover_fiction=2012-02-11, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Thriller, Man-woman relationships, Orphans, Power (Social sciences), Crime, Fiction, general, Korea, fiction, Large type books, History, Literatura norteamericana, Inglés (Lengua), Lecturas, New York Times reviewed, Coming of age
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Pak Jun Do, Kim Jong Il, Sun Moon
Places
North Korea, Pyongyang
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1994-2011

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2012

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3610.O3 O76 2012
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Open Library
OL26388362M
ISBN 10
0679643990
ISBN 13
9780679643999
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2011013410
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B004X6PRO6
Canadian National Library Archive
39082715
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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.

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