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|author=Adam Johnson
|title=The Orphan Master's Son
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Orphan Master's Son'' follows the adventures of Jun Do who has been born without any say in his future. For this is North Korea, where all is organised for the good of the state or at the whim of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il.
Jun Do starts his adult life as a member of a state-sanctioned kidnap squad before joining a fishing boat as a 'listener', basically a spy monitoring and translating foreign radio traffic. His troubles start when he discovers that being a good citizen isn't enough and sometimes a person needs something else to believe in and fight for.
This is an incredibly hard book to sum up, but I also realise this will be an awfully short review if I don't try, so here goes...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520555</amazonuk>
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|author=Elizabeth Wein
