The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
Marcel Theroux
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h216 x 135mm - 240pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9781472156952
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In the most isolated country on earth, a chance discovery shapes a young man' s destiny. Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him. Over time, the game leads Jun-su on a spellbinding and unexpected journey through the hidden layers of his country, towards precocious success, glory, love, betrayal, prison, a spell at the pinnacle of the North Korean elite and an extraordinary kind of redemption. Warm, uplifting, and deeply-researched,The Sorcerer of Pyongyang is a love story and a tale of survival against the odds. Inspired by the testimony of North Korean refugees, and drawing on the author' s personal experience of North Korea, it testifies to the power of empathy and the human imagination.
Marcel Theroux is the author of six previous novels, a Somerset Maugham Award winner, a National Book Award Finalist, and the winner of the Joseph Campbell award.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472156952
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 22mm
Pages: 240

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