Read the World: North Korea

Books by authors from North Korea or set in/about North Korea.

Updated February 2, 2024
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Peacebound trains
Balgassi, Haemi.
Paper Book
As Sumi waits for the train that will bring her mother back after a long absence, Grandmother tells how her family escaped on a train from Seoul, Korea, at the last moment before the Korean War began.
The orphan master's son [electronic resource] A Novel
Johnson, Adam, 1967-
Ebook
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An epic journey into the heart of North Korea and the world's most mysterious dictatorship. "Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here."...
In the tunnel
Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer)
Paper Book
Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother's Keeper. Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in...

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