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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2015: By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 for his novel THE ORPHAN MASTER´S SON, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2014 - a major story collection.

For fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER´S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr.´Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.´ Sunday Times´Ironic, witty, super-intelligent´ - The Times´Terrific. Shows exactly why Johnson is rated as one of the hottest American writers of his generation´ Mail on Sunday

Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet - a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son.

These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

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"Ironic, witty, super-intelligent" The Times

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ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master´s Son (´Excavates the very meaning of life´ New York Times). His short story ´Nirvana´ (included here) won the Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award in 2014. He is the author of acclaimed short stories Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.

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