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The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
Publisher: Random House

I was lucky enough to put The Orphan Master's Son (Random House 2012) on hold at the library the day before it won the Pulitzer. The Orphan Master's Son is a story about a nameless man, living in a country where the rules are all inverted and everything is part of some Byzantine puzzle. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson ~ A Capsule Book Review by Allen Kopp. The 2013 John Simon Guggenheim fellows have been announced, and we were pleased to see one friend on the list – Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son. Praise for The Orphan Master's Son “A daring and remarkable novel.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Gripping . The Orphan Master's Son tries to construct through fiction the secretive world of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea- also known as North Korea. The whole list of fellows is here. It's been a couple weeks since Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son won the Morning News Tournament of Books, and about a week since it nabbed the Pulitzer Prize. The Orphan Master's Son, a novel about North Korea by Adam Johnson, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, while The New York Times claimed four awards for its journalism. Almost without fail, they loved this book. Every year I read the work of fiction (usually a novel but sometimes a volume of short stories) that wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Orphan Master's Son is the first adult fiction I've read in a good few weeks and I really enjoyed getting involved something with a bit more depth and complexity with wonderful language as well as a superb plot. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson This book has been highly recommended all around me, and especially by people whose reading taste I share.