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The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux

In 1995, an 11-year-old boy in North Korea, Cho Jun-su, stumbles across a strange foreign book that will change his life. Read by Edmund Kingsley.

In 1995, an 11-year-old boy in North Korea, Cho Jun-su, stumbles across a strange, foreign book that will change his life. Helped in private by a teacher, Jun-su learns that it is a Dungeon Master's guide. Dungeons and Dragons opens up a whole new world of make-believe and imagination for the boy.

But in the years that follow, Jun-su learns that, in a totalitarian state, imagination can be a dangerous thing.

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