Новинки Адама Джонсона

"Усмішки долі" стали переможцем National Book Award та The Story Prize, фіналістом Los Angeles Times Book Prize, увійшли у десятку найкращих книжок року за версією San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today і Miami Herald. The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Magazine, The Independent визнали цю збірку одним з найкращих видань 2015 року.

З дитинства натренований бачити в темряві тунелів, Чон До — син начальника табору для сиріт, здатен і в житті, що його оточує, роздивитися більше за інших. Темрява для нього — це несвобода, це країна, де голод має смак квітів, де швидка смерть стає проявом найбільшої любові до рідних — заради порятунку їх від жаху таборів, — де держава замість прав для всіх дарує певні привілеї обраним, називаючи себе найпрогресивнішою демократією у світі. Але й у суцільному мороці є місце коханню і самопожертві, дружбі і честі. Темніше за все — перед світанком...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, "The Orphan Master’s Son", Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers. Subtly surreal, darkly comic, both hilarious and heartbreaking, Fortune Smiles is a major collection of stories that gives voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear, while offering something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.

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.

Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories confirm Johnson as one of America’s greatest writers and an indispensable guide to our new century.

*The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013

After trashing his cherry '72 Corvette, illegally breaking into an ancient burial site, and snacking on 12,000-year-old popcorn, Hank Hannah finds that he's inadvertently unleashed the apocalypse. Hank, a professor of anthropology back in the days when there were still co-eds to ogle and now one of only twelve humans still alive on earth, decides to record the last days of human civilization for whomever - or whatever - might replace us.

Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy plucked from nowhere to be trained as a tunnel assassin, a kidnapper, a spy.

He has no father but the State, no sweetheart but Sun Moon, the greatest opera star who ever lived, whose face is tattooed on his chest.

Imagine he lives in our very own country, a model of exemplary Communism. A nation that is the envy of the world, especially the Americans. Where the only stories people need to hear are those blasting out of loudspeakers to the glory of our dear Leader, Kim Jong il.

Dry your eyes now, comrades! Prepare to hear the Greatest North Korean Love Story Ever Told.

THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON is an iconoclastic work of fiction, part thriller, part coming-of-age story, part love story. Dark, playful and genre-defying, its searing depiction of one man's epic journey through the surrealist brutality of North Korea shines a fierce light on the essence of the human condition.

An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill.

Северная Корея начала ХХI века. В стране, где правит культ личности Ким Чен Ира, процветают нищета, коррупция и жестокость власти по отношению к собственному народу, лишённому элементарных человеческих прав. Публичные казни, концлагеря и тюремные шахты, рабство, похищения японцев и южнокорейцев, круглосуточная пропаганда и запрет на всё иностранное — такова реальность существования людей, которых государственная машина превращает в зомби. Главный герой романа, мальчик из сиротского приюта, в 14 лет становится солдатом, которого учат сражаться в тёмных туннелях, прорытых в демилитаризованной зоне, а через несколько лет — безжалостным…

An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.

Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress “so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.”

Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master’s Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today’s greatest writers.

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the state soon recognize the boy's loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself "a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world", Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like.

In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.

Amazon.comA disturbing sense of paranoia drifts through the nine stories in Emporium , Adam Johnson's stunning debut. But beneath the uneasy surface of the freakishly memorable landscapes depicted in this original collection lies the familiar

Многим поколениям биологов знаком пятитомник Альбертса «Молекулярная биология клетки», на русском языке впервые выпущенный в 1987 г. С тех пор вышло несколько его изданий, каждое из которых вмещало самые последние достижения молекулярной биологии. Не в последнюю очередь именно увеличивающимся объемом книги обусловлено решение авторов написать ее сокращенный вариант. В полностью переработанном и расширенном пятом оригинальном (англоязычном) издании «Основ молекулярной биологии клетки» поддержана традиция очень ясного и логичного изложения материала в виде красочных, понятных схем и интересных иллюстраций с подробными подписями к ним.
Книга адресована студентам младших курсов биологических и медицинских специальностей, школьным учителям и преподавателям вузов при подготовке лекций и семинаров, а также всем интересующимся предметом и изучающим его на профильном уровне.
Текст книги отличается четким живым написанием и исключительными иллюстрациями, что делает его идеальным учебником для студентов вводного курса как клеточной, так и молекулярной биологии.
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