The Orphan Master's Son

Excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice * New York Times *An addictive novel of daring ingenuity; a study of sacrifice and freedom in a citizen-eating dynasty; and a timely reminder that anonymous victims of oppression are also human beings who love. A brave and impressive book. * David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas *You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story. Fantastic * Zadie Smith *Johnson unleashes a big, thrilling, and fully realized talent * Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad *Adam Johnson has managed to capture the atmosphere of this hermit kingdom better than any writer I’ve read … The Orphan Master’s Son deserves a place up there with dystopian classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World – Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea * Guardian *An addictive novel of daring ingenuity; a study of sacrifice and freedom in a citizen-eating dynasty; and a timely reminder that anonymous victims of oppression are also human beings who love. A brave and impressive book – David Mitchell, author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOETA flamboyantly grim epic of totalitarianism… this larger-than-life, two-fisted picaresque manages to be a page-turner… an ambitious book * The Sunday Times *One of those books where you know you’ve found yourself in the hands of someone who can really tell a story, and is yet not naïve about the artificiality of stories. The conceit is fantastic: a narration partly told through the loud speakers of the North Korean regime. – Zadie SmithFast-paced and intriguing.. this complex, multi-voiced narrative will remind some readers of David Mitchell’s similarly inventive tale, Cloud Atlas… It is magnificent * Financial Times *What we have here are the ingredients of an across-the-board smash hit: sympathetic characters, an exotic, unknowable setting and a plot that will carry you along more convincingly than any of the fictions used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. – David Annand * Sunday Telegraph *

Adam Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His second novel THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. His short story NIRVANA won the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014. He lives in San Francisco with his family.

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