Adam Johnson

PREMIO PULITZER 2013. THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERJun Do vive en un orfanato y se considera un humilde ciudadano «del mejor país del mundo». A los catorce años es reclutado por el ejército norcorea

Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy from nowhere who is plucked from his orphanage by the military, to be trained as a tunnel assassin, a kidnapper, a spy.He has no father but the State, no sweetheart but Sun Moon, the greatest opera star who ever lived, whose face is tattooed on his chest.Imagine he lives in our very own country, a model of exemplary Communism. A nation that is the envy of the world, especially the Americans. Where the only human stories people need to hear are those blasting out of loudspeakers to the glory of our dear Leader, Kim Jong il.Citizens! Who is this individual? What is his story? Who will remember him?Pak Jun Do is his name: wrestler of sharks, envoy to Texan barbecues, imposter extraordinaire, whose murderous biography has only come to light through the talents and stamina of our most patriotic interrogators. Dry your eyes now, comrades! This is the double-life story of a hero and martyr: the Greatest North Korean Love Story Ever Told.THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON is an iconoclastic work of fiction, part thriller, part coming-of-age story, part love story. Dark, playful and genre-defying, its searing depiction of one man's epic journey through the surrealist brutality of North Korea shines a fierce light on the essence of the human condition. Warning: Any resemblance to real people and events may not be entirely coincidental

Part bildungsroman, part political thriller, part exposé of the most secretive country in the world, this is the story of a North Korean orphan who rises up through the ranks of the DPRK army as a tunnel soldier, a professional kidnapper, and a military intelligence officer, ultimately to become--for a very short time--a rival to the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. Yet it is also a love story--as one character in the novel claims, "the greatest North Korean love story ever told." After reading it, you'll never look at a map of the Korean peninsula the same way.

Tour à tour grinçantes, bouleversantes, drôles et déchirantes, ces six novellas offrent au lecteur une nouvelle façon de voir le monde, s’imposant chacune comme un bijou de subtilité et d’intelligenc

Jun Do grandit bercé par la propagande nord-coréenne. Soldat modèle, il exécute sans ciller les ordres du terrible leader Kim Jong-il. Mais sous les cieux du « royaume ermite », la disgrâce est auss

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015. By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr. "Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping." (Sunday Times). "Ironic, witty, super-intelligent". (The Times). Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet - a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son. These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER''S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler.SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son.These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

Love... Its a most curious thing. Ive watched as Galaxies sprung from dust. Ive had a front-row seat to the stars, bringing life to the cosmos. I have held the most powerful forces known to us in my hands and yet, I never suspected something so simpleso delicate, could unravel the entire universe. My name is Anu, they have given me many names, but those in Avana call me The Mother. The Sentiment, I appreciate, but even after breathing life into this universe, I still havent experienced the genuine feeling of a Mothers love. Until I created her... She was perfect in every way. Skin as dark as the depths of space, but smooth as the finest silk. Her pearlescent hair was the perfect frame for her soft face with freckles that twinkled like stars. She was my greatest creation and the closest thing to the feeling of love that I would experience. I named her Inanna. I still didnt understand my need to feel something so simple, for I was eternal and through the code, I am connected to all things. Through her, I learned the true power of love and kindness and it was, perhaps, greater than anything the code could bring me. I knew what she would one day become, but I wanted more for her. Overseeing an entire universe sounds glamorous, but it is incredibly lonely. I want her to experience the love that I long for, so I created four potential mates for her. She would have the best I could give her, and when I created the four, I begged the source to make at least one that would love her like I had never been loved. I could control the entire flow of the cosmos, but when the source answered, I quickly found out that love was a force that even the Godcode couldnt control.

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From the author of The Orphan Masters Son (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Fortune Smiles (winner of the US National Book Award) a mythic masterpiece named one of Ten Best Books of 2025 by the Wall Street Journaland the Washington PostAn epic of extraordinary abundance modern and mythological wondrous enough to endure Wall Street JournalAdam Johnsons awesome new novel takes place almost a thousand years ago in Polynesia, but its real setting is that realm beyond time and place where mortals contend with gods, and mythology and history merge like twinned tree trunks This astonishing novel, at once so primeval and so sophisticated, pulses with the same hopes and terrors that first pricked our imaginations around a fire as the sun set - a tapestry of South Pacific myth, archetypal quest, political allegory, environmental jeremiad and feminist revision that feels both ancient and impossibly relevant. Washington PostTalking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life?this is the world young Korero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island, a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation, and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home theyve ever known and await the uncertainty to come, or Korero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters, guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What Korero and her people dont know is that the promised refuge is no utopia?instead, Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse, a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency.The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger and Korero embark upon an epic voyage?one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific.Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of Shogun, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history, restores the natural world, and locates whats best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive, The Wayfinder is an instant, timeless classic.

Empori és un panorama excepcional de la condició humana. Els personatges d''Adam Johnson, en l''abisme de la solitud i l''abandonament, busquen el seu espai en una societat urbana paranoica i agressiva. Encallats en l''enyor de l''adolescencia, escindits per la incertesa i el desig de revolta, la vida es per a ells un trencaclosques sense solucio aparent. La prosa d''Adam Johnson es provocativa, divertida i intel·ligent, una construccio literaria de primer nivell. Ens proposa un univers aparentment marginal, inquietant, que segurament no es troba gaire lluny del nostre. Tenim a les mans un creador agosarat en el paisatge literari nordamerica, comparat per la critica amb J. D. Salinger i Kurt Vonnegut per la seva ironia desbordant, per la seva tecnica magistral. [narratives 18]

The "remarkable" (The New Yorker) debut story collection by the author of The Orphan Masters Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullestthese are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesmaneach seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together.

The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Masters Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) Hailed as "remarkable" by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankinds quest for its own past.Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnsons distinctive dark humor, Parasites Like Us is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.

* By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014* An idiosyncratic and compelling voice Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill.

*The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013After trashing his cherry 72 Corvette, illegally breaking into an ancient burial site, and snacking on 12,000-year-old popcorn, Hank Hannah finds that hes inadvertently unleashed the apocalypse. Hank, a professor of anthropology back in the days when there were still co-eds to ogle and now one of only twelve humans still alive on earth, decides to record the last days of human civilization for whomever - or whatever - might replace us.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr.Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.Sunday TimesIronic, witty, super-intelligent - The TimesTerrific. Shows exactly why Johnson is rated as one of the hottest American writers of his generationMail on SundayAdam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son. These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

"You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ...fantastic". (Zadie Smith). Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents - it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for beatings. He knows he is special when he is picked as a spy and kidnapper for his country, the glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea. He knows he must find his true love, Sun Moon, the greatest opera star who ever lived, before it's too late. He knows he's not like the other prisoners in the camp. He's going to get out soon. Definitely.