The Sorcerer of Pyongyang - Softcover

Theroux, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472156978 ISBN 13: 9781472156976

Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, 2023

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'A compulsively readable tale, all the better for being set in one of the most secretive countries in the world. In The Sorcerer of Pyongyang, Marcel Theroux captures the extraordinary atmosphere of North Korean life with wit and insight' Michael PalinIn 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.

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Acclaimed writer Marcel Theroux is now one of the faces of the new BBC4 television channel, as well as being the son of Paul Theroux and the brother of Louis.

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'A compulsively readable tale . . . Theroux captures the extraordinary atmosphere of North Korean life with wit and insight' Michael Palin



Growing up in the most isolated country on earth, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game that will change his life forever.



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.



'Theroux writes with intelligence, compassion and an occasional quiet lyricism . . . [The Sorcerer of Pyongyang] powerfully embodies the plight of North Koreans in the state's vast shadow' Guardian



'Expert, engrossing . . . A cleverly imagined tale of psychic repression and escape from it' Kirkus, starred review

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472156978
• ISBN 13: 9781472156976
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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