Fortune smiles : stories / Adam Johnson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812997477 (hardcover : acid-free paper) :
- Physical Description: 304 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Nirvana -- Hurricanes anonymous -- Interesting facts -- George Orwell was a friend of mine -- Dark meadow -- Fortune smiles. |
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Subject: | Family life > Fiction |
Genre: | Short stories |
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