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Adam Johnson

    12 luglio 1967

    Adam Johnson scrive con una precisione agghiacciante sui lati oscuri della natura umana e su come le persone comuni affrontano circostanze straordinarie. La sua prosa è intrisa di acuta intuizione e realtà inquietante, spesso affrontando temi di lavoro forzato, perdita di identità e la ricerca dell'umanità in condizioni disumanizzanti. Johnson fonde magistralmente la tensione narrativa con una profonda empatia, attirando i lettori in mondi tanto avvincenti quanto disturbanti. Il suo lavoro esplora i confini della moralità e la resilienza dello spirito umano con una voce distintiva e indimenticabile.

    Adam Johnson
    Parasites Like Us
    Emporium
    Fortune Smiles: Stories
    Fortune Smiles. Nirvana, englische Ausgabe
    Fortune Smiles
    Il Signore degli Orfani
    • Pak Jun Do è figlio di una madre scomparsa, una cantante rapita e portata a Pyongyang per allettare i potenti della capitale, e di un padre influente, direttore di un orfanotrofio. Crescendo, si fa notare per lealtà e coraggio, tanto da convincere lo Stato a offrirgli una carriera molto rapida. E per lui comincia un percorso senza ritorno attraverso le stanze segrete della dittatura più misteriosa del pianeta. "Umile cittadino della più grande nazione del mondo", Jun Do diventa un rapitore professionista, costretto a destreggiarsi tra regole instabili e richieste sconcertanti da parte dei suoi superiori per sopravvivere. L'amore per Sun Moon, attrice leggendaria, lo porterà a prendere in mano la propria vita, con un sorprendente colpo di scena. Ambientato nella Corea del Nord dei nostri giorni, il libro di Adam Johnson descrive vita e accadimenti di un moderno Candido in un regime isolato e folle, un vero e proprio regno eremita in cui realtà e propaganda si sovrappongono fino a essere indistinguibili. Romanzo d'avventura, racconto di un'innocenza perduta e romantica storia d'amore, "Il signore degli orfani" è anche il ritratto di un mondo che fino a oggi ci è stato tenuto nascosto: una terra devastata dalla fame, dalla corruzione, da una crudeltà che colpisce a caso, dove esistono anche solidarietà, inaspettati squarci di bellezza, e amore.

      Il Signore degli Orfani
    • Fortune Smiles

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015 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 Karen Jay Fowler. 'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times 'Ironic, witty, super-intelligent' - The 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.

      Fortune Smiles
    • 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 Karen Jay Fowler. 'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times 'Ironic, witty, super-intelligent' - The Times WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015 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. Nirvana, englische Ausgabe
    • "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel 'The Orphan Master's Son', Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. "Nirvana," which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In "Hurricanes Anonymous" -- first included in the Best American Short Stories anthology -- 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." -- Provided by publisher

      Fortune Smiles: Stories
    • Emporium

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      * 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.

      Emporium
    • Parasites Like Us

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      *The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 After trashing his cherry '72 Corvette, illegally breaking into an ancient burial site, and snacking on 12,000-year-old popcorn, Hank Hannah finds that he's inadvertently unleashed the apocalypse. Hank, a professor of anthropology back in the days when there were still co-eds to ogle and now one of only twelve humans still alive on earth, decides to record the last days of human civilization for whomever - or whatever - might replace us.

      Parasites Like Us
    • Come wish your biggest wish and become all you have ever dreamt of becoming, and more.

      I Wish I Wish
    • An introduction to the Christian doctrine of the atonement focused on the unity and diversity of the work of Christ.

      Atonement
    • Adam Johnsons Figuren sind Sinnsuchende in einer gefährlichen, verstörenden Welt. Ein jugendlicher Scharfschütze, ein ehemaliger Polizist, ein melancholischer Student und ein Ladenbesitzer kämpfen mit den Fallstricken der postmodernen Gesellschaft. Johnsons Erzählungen bieten einen absurd-genialen Zerrspiegel der Wirklichkeit.

      Emporium. Storys