style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">In The Orphan Master’s Son, American writer Adam Johnson skilfully conjures up the surreal peculiarities of North Korea, a totalitarian state that was, until recently, controlled by a Dear Leader so deluded that he could allow state-run media to boast of his having shot 11 holes-in-one in a round of golf – a world record.