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The Boy who Escaped Paradise
J. M. Lee
Pegasus
January 2017
On Sale: December 20, 2016
Featuring: Gilmo
288 pages
ISBN: 1681772523
EAN: 9781681772523
Kindle: B01E9EHWO4
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Mystery
An astonishing story of the mysteries, truths, and
deceptions that follow the odyssey of Ahn Gilmo, a young
math savant, as he escapes from the most isolated country in
the world and searches for the only family he has left An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with
numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse.
Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world
through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is
arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned
to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back in
Pyongyang. But when his father, a preeminent doctor is
discovered to be a secret Christian, he is subsequently
incarcerated along with Gilmo, in a political prison
overseen by a harsh, cruel warden. There, Gilmo meets the spirited Yeong-ae, who becomes his
only friend. When Yeong-ae manages to escape, Gilmo flees
to track her down. He uses his peculiar gifts to navigate
betrayal and the criminal underworld of east Asia—a world
wholly alien to everything he's ever known. In The Boy Who Escaped Paradise, celebrated author
J. M. Lee delves into a hidden world filled with vivid
characters trapped by ideology, greed, and despair. Gilmo's
saga forces the reader to question the line between good and
evil, truth and falsehood, captivity and freedom.
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