Adam johnson orphan masters son biography template

2012 novel by Adam Johnson

The Orphan Master's Son is a 2012 novel by the American author Adam Johnson. It deals with intertwined propaganda, identity, and state power themes in North Korea.^[1] The novel was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.^[2][3]

Characters

• Pak Jun Do: Protagonist – An orphan and model citizen who struggles through life in North Korea.
• Commander Ga: A North Korean hero and rival of Kim Jong-il.
• Sun Moon: Ga's wife and famous North Korean actress.
• Kim Jong-il (the Dear Leader): North Korean dictator.
• Interrogator for the North Korean state
• Comrade Buc: An official in the North Korean government. He helps

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  The Pulitzer Prize for fiction “has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.”  Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son is a glorious coming of age novel about a fictional child in North Korea who climbs from obscurity to the pinnacle of power – something that would, in fact, be quite far-fetched – so far-fetched, the narrative maintains, that it takes people by surprise, and the audacity of the character and his life makes what he accomplishes possible.  So this rags to riches tale is American in form, but, I think, more deeply related to American life, and the reason to award this prize, which has gone to such books as To Kill A Mockingbirdand American Pastoral, has to do with what I believe the judges took to be the essentially American perspective of the book, one that I will try to address from a psychoanalytic perspective.
  
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“An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.” —Pulitzer Prize citation

“All of these elements—stylistic panache, technical daring, moral weight and an uncanny sense of the current moment—combine in Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, the single best work of fiction published in 2012. . . . The book's cunning, flair and pathos are testaments to the still-formidable power of the written word.” —The vägg Street Journal

“The Orphan Master’s Son performs an unusual form of sorcery, taking a frankly cruel and absurd reality and somehow converting it into a humane and believable fiction. It’s an epic feat of story-telling. It’s thrillingly written, and it's just thrilling period.” —Zadie Smith, Los Angeles Times

“A great novel can take implausible fact and turn it into entirely believable fiction. That’s the genius of The Orphan Master’s Son.  Adam J