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Adam Johnson

    July 12, 1967

    Adam Johnson crafts fiction that probes the darkest corners of human nature, exploring how ordinary individuals navigate extraordinary and often brutal circumstances. His prose is marked by a chilling precision and a profound sense of unease, frequently delving into themes of forced labor, identity dissolution, and the struggle for humanity in dehumanizing environments. Johnson masterfully blends narrative tension with deep empathy, drawing readers into worlds that are as compelling as they are disturbing. His work examines the limits of morality and the resilience of the human spirit with a distinctive and unforgettable voice.

    Adam Johnson
    Parasites Like Us
    Emporium
    Fortune Smiles: Stories
    Fortune Smiles. Nirvana, englische Ausgabe
    The Orphan Master's Son
    Fortune Smiles
    • 2021

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

      I Wish I Wish
    • 2016

      Fortune Smiles

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.2(46)Add rating

      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
    • 2016

      "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
    • 2015

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

      Atonement
    • 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 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
    • 2014

      Emporium

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.0(11)Add rating

      * 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
    • 2012

      The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.

      The Orphan Master's Son
    • 2004

      Parasites Like Us

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.3(1068)Add rating

      *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