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. Author: Theroux, Marcel, Binding: Paperback, Imprint: Corsair, Series: N/A, Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, Published: 02/03/2023, Pagination: 240 pages, Classification: Fiction & related items, Country of Publication: United Kingdom 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.
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