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The boy who escaped paradise a novel

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.

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Main Author:	Yi, Chŏng-myŏng, (Novelist) (Author)
Other Authors:	Kim, Chi-Young (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Korean
Published:	New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Edition:	First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Koreans > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Savants (Savant syndrome) > Fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:	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 are 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 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.
Physical Description:	278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:	1681772523 9781681772523
Author Notes:	J. M. Lee has sold hundreds of thousands of books in his native Korea. One, Deep Rooted Tree, was made into a popular T.V. series. He is the author of The Investigation, also published by Pegasus Books. Chi-Young Kim is the celebrated translator of the Man Asian Literary Prize-winning international bestseller Please Look After Mom.