This book is by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE Orphan Master's - 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 - 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.

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"Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice." - Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times""RIch with a sense of discovery...The year is young, but "The Orphan Master's Son" has an early lead on novel of 2012." - "The Daily Beast""This is a novel worth getting excited about." - "The Washington Post""[A] ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory." - "Elle"An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, "The Orphan Master's Son" follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang--and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world," Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress "so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like." Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, "The Orphan Master's Son" is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, "The Orphan Master's Son" ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today's greatest writers.

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.

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. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: This collection of poems is prepared largely from the author's signed typescripts and includes previously unpublished work.

A powerful debut collection of stories centers around loss, loneliness, and abandonment, following such unforgettable characters as a father who searches for his troubled son in a zoo, a cancer victim who controls a satellite, and a sniper who trains his scope on the girl of his dreams. Reprint.

A powerful debut collection of stories centers around loss, loneliness, and abandonment, following such unforgettable characters as a father who searches for his troubled son in a zoo, a cancer victim who controls a satellite, and a sniper who trains his scope on the girl of his dreams. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Three weeks before his death at the age of 28, in May 1993, Adam Johnson delivered the typescript of this collection to Carcarnet. His poems celebrate music, painting, places and, above all, friendship.