The Orphan Master's Son (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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JOHNSON, Adam. The Orphan Master's Son. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. Octavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 443 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Random House, 2012. Adam Johnson (b. 1967) grew up in South Dakota and Arizona, took his MFA at McNeese State University in Louisiana, and is a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. The Orphan Master's Son was his second novel and won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is, by some measure, the most ambitious and formally demanding novel ever written about North Korea — a country that does not easily yield to imaginative treatment, since so little of its interior life is visible to outsiders and the consequences of misrepresentation are not trivial. Johnson spent years researching the project, including a visit to Pyongyang itself, and what he produced is a work that holds its subject with unusual steadiness: neither satirising nor romanticising, but imagining with full seriousness the interior life of people formed by a system designed, at every level, to prevent them from having one. The novel follows Pak Jun Do, an orphan raised in a state facility for children of politica

• Binding: Hardcover

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