{"product_id":"the-orphan-masters-son-9780552778251","title":"The Orphan Masters Son","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller. His short story NIRVANA won the EFG\/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014. He lives in San Francisco with his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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 ZOET\u003cbr\u003eA flamboyantly grim epic of totalitarianism… this larger-than-life, two-fisted picaresque manages to be a page-turner... an ambitious book * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 Smith\u003cbr\u003eFast-paced and intriguing.. this complex, multi-voiced narrative will remind some readers of David Mitchell’s similarly inventive tale, \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e… It is magnificent * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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 *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738396012887,"sku":"9780552778251","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-orphan-masters-son-9780552778251","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}