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The boy who escaped paradise: a novel

✍ Scribed by J. M. Lee


Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
203 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


An astonishing story of the mysteries dividing truth and deception that follows the odyssey of Ahn GilΒ­mo, a young autistic math genius, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left.

An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. GilΒ­mo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process.

The enigmatic GilΒ­mo used to have a quite life back in Pyongyang. But when his father, a preeminent doctor is discovered to be a secret Christian, he is subsequently incarcerated along with Gilmo, in a political prison overseen by a harsh, cruel warden.

There, he meets the spirited Yeong-ae, who becomes his only friend. When Yeong-Β­ae manages to escape,...


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