Adam Johnson

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Junot Diaz, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler. 'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet âe" 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.

Interesting Facts

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 '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

The Orphan Master's Son

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Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy with links to the Ice Age that could profoundly alter the world of the present. Reprint.

Parasites Like Us

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the The Orphan Master's Son comes a major short-story collection for readers of Junot Díaz and George Saunders. In post-Katrina Louisiana, a young man and his new girlfriend search for the mother of his son. In Palo Alto, a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president. In contemporary Berlin, a former Stasi agent ponders his past. And in the stunning title story, a woman with cancer rages against the idea of her family without her. Hugely inventive and endlessly energetic,Interesting Facts is a funny, heart-wrenching, surprising collection that shows Johnson writing at the top of his form.

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Fortune Smiles

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Yetimlerin Efendisinin Oglu

Vencedor do prémio Pulitzer 2013: Uma saga de amor, esperança e redenção no país mais fechado do mundo. Vida Roubada segue a vida de Pak Jun Do, um jovem no país com a ditadura mais sombria do mundo: a Coreia do Norte. Jun Do é o filho atormentado de uma cantora misteriosa e de um pai dominante que gere um orfanato. É nesse orfanato que tem as suas primeiras experiências de poder, escolhendo os órfãos que comem primeiro e os que são enviados para trabalhos forçados. Reconhecido pela sua lealdade, Jun Do inicia a ascensão na hierarquia do Estado e envereda por uma estrada da qual não terá retorno. Considerando-se “um cidadão humilde da maior nação do mundo”, Jun Do torna-se raptor profissional e terá de resistir à violência arbitrária dos seus líderes para poder sobreviver. Mas é então que, levado ao limite, ousa assumir o papel do maior rival do Querido Líder Kim Jon Il, numa tentativa de salvar a mulher que ama, a lendária atriz Sun Moon. Em parte thriller, em parte história de amor, Vida Roubada é um retrato cruel de uma Coreia do Norte dominada pela fome, corrupção e violência. Mas onde, estranhamente, também encontramos beleza e amor.

Vida Roubada

The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The "remarkable" (The New Yorker) debut story collection by the author of The Orphan Master's 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 fullest—these 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 salesman—each 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.

Emporium

"Citoyens, rassemblez-vous devant vos haut-parleurs! Dans votre cuisine, votre bureau, votre atelier, partout où vous pouvez nous entendre, montez le son, et écoutez l'histoire de la plus grande nation du monde, la République populaire démocratique de Corée !"

La vie volée de Jun Do

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014 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 'Terrific. Shows exactly why Johnson is rated as one of the hottest American writers of his generation' Mail on Sunday 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.

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Nirvana

Il signore degli orfani

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I Wish I Wish

"When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm, and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he had become one of the most accomplished English poets of his generation. This collection of his poems charts that astonishing transformation. It is compelling as a record of a few short years of serious writing. JohnsonÆs poetic imagination, shaped by his close observation of the natural world, proved no less adept at dealing with the ironies and tragedies of urban life. A love of music, painting, and literatureùof cultural life in all its formsùis matched by a delight in human relationships. Many of his poems are dedicated to lovers and friends, across the dinner table or at journeyÆs end. His celebratory relish for lived experience remains undiminished even in his last poems. This edition is prepared largely from the authorÆs signed typescripts and includes previously unpublished work."

Collected Poems

Antoine Cazé

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'intelligence. On y croise notamment un ancien gardien de prison de la Stasi, qui reçoit devant sa porte d'étranges colis anonymes tout droit venus du passé ; deux déserteurs ayant fui la Corée du Nord et son régime totalitaire pour tenter de reconstruire leur vie à Séoul ; un homme en plein désarroi face à la grave maladie de sa femme, qui ressuscite à la vie sous forme d'avatar le président américain récemment assassiné afin de profiter de ses conseils ; ou encore un livreur UPS à la recherche de la mère de son fils de deux ans après que celle-ci a disparu en Louisiane lors du passage de l'ouragan Katrina... Récompensé par le National Book Award, ce livre surprenant et audacieux confirme la voix singulière d'Adam Johnson, lauréat du prix Pulitzer pour La Vie volée de Jun Do, et son oeil aiguisé pour décrire le monde d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. « Ses phrases chantent et crépitent et déferlent et s'embrasent sous les yeux du lecteur. » Lauren Groff, auteure de Floride et Les Furies « Un recueil magistral. » The Washington Post

La Chance vous sourit

Here's what you need to know if you're considering or about to become a JET. In this guide you'll learn about the positives and negatives of being an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher), teaching techniques, problem solving methods, and how to navigate life in Japan, all based off of the real-life experience of a recent JET. This book covers a wide variety of topics including how to break into the program, how to setup your apartment and bank account, how to teach and handle disruptive students, and an additional 64 problems you may encounter while living in Japan. A true survival guide for any JET.

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* 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 Times An 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.

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