The Boy Who Escaped Paradise: A Novel
by J. M. Lee
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A "story of the mysteries, truths, and deceptions that follow the odyssey of Ahn Gilmo, a young math savant, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left"--Amazon.com.An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols written in blood near the corpse. Ahn Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Previously show more incarcerated in a Korean political prison because his father was a secret Christian, Gilmo must now use his peculiar gifts to navigate the criminal world as he searches for the only family he has left. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. show lessTags
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- 895.73 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Korean Korean fiction
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- PL994.9 .C46 .B69 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Korean language and literature Korean literature Individual authors and works
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