The Orphan Masters Son
The Orphan Masters Son The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's most mysterious dictatorship. Superiors in the North…
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The Orphan Masters Son
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's most mysterious dictatorship. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy's loyalty and keen instincts. "Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which Adam] Johnson is painting here."--The Washington PostPak 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.
He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly