-- The Washington Post «Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Master's Son is set
in North Korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions
spun by a dictator and his inner circle... Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot
in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity... We don't know what's really going on
in that
strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what it must be like can be found
in this brilliant and timely novel.»