A travelogue of North Korea by Reza Amirkhani, the author of the bestselling Persian novels “Salvation” and “The Good Smell of Oil”, has recently appeared in Tehran bookstores as Iranian people are fighting the new coronavirus. “At this time as people are dealing with the massive disaster, why should one publish a book?” Amirkhani asked in a statement published after the release of his book “A Half of One-Sixth of ...