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The Orphan Master's Son A Novel

✍ Scribed by Johnson, Adam

Book ID
108628748
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
486 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679643999

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✦ Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A daring and remarkable novel."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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."

In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a...

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