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Fortune Smiles is a 2015 collection of short stories by American author and novelist Adam Johnson. It is Johnson's second published short story collection, after his 2002 book Emporium and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master's Son. The collection includes six stories, several of which have won awards.
- Adam Johnson
- 2015
Aug 18, 2015 · Fortune Smiles is about North Koreans defectors, who now find themselves in South Korea, where they have freedom and choice, and food!, and the ubiquitous internet, yet, they miss home. How can that be?
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- Hardcover
Aug 13, 2015 · In the title story, “Fortune Smiles,” a defector from North Korea in the cold wonderland of Seoul may or may not have forced his closest ally to defect with him, thereby alienating the only...
Sep 1, 2021 · In Fortune Smiles--his first book since Orphan Master--he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something we all seek from fiction: a new way of looking at our world.
Oct 4, 2016 · Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear.
- Adam Johnson
- $14.13
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
Oct 4, 2016 · “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.” — The Boston Globe
“Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.” — The Boston Globe
