Stanford Prof Weaves Spellbinding North Korea Narrative

The burst of rave reviews directed at The Orphan Master’s Son is just the beginning. It seems almost certain that by this time next year, author Adam Johnson will be in the running for some major literary awards.

An associate professor in creative writing at Stanford University, Johnson took the tour package to the Hermit Kingdom in 2007 and then continued doing research. After also reading a few bellwether non-fiction books including Barbara Demick‘s Nothing to Envy, he crafted a very clever inside-NK narrative.

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