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Random House
August 2015
On Sale: August 18, 2015
ISBN: 0812997476
EAN: 9780812997477
Kindle: B00RKO6N14
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about
North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of
America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics
have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and
George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further
his reputation as one of our most original writers. Subtly
surreal, darkly comic, both hilarious and heartbreaking,
Fortune Smiles is a major collection of stories that gives
voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear, while
offering something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at
the world.
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. Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality,
these stories confirm Johnson as one of America’s greatest
writers and an indispensable guide to our new century.
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