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The Boy Who Escaped Paradise
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781681776231
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: Aug 26 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gil-mo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique persona.
In The Boy Who Escaped Paradise, celebrated author J. M. Lee delves into a hidden world filled with vivid characters trapped by ideology, greed, and despair. Gil-mo's saga forces the reader to question the line between good and evil, truth and falsehood, and captivity and freedom.
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