Review
'These stories, very effectively told here in all their human detail, are immensely touching' --Daily Mail
'This remarkable book confirms our fears but does much more ... Barbara Demick is a reporter of impressive tenacity and thoroughness' --The Times
`This compelling book is a worthy winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson prize' --Guardian
`I've never read anything quite like it ... Demick has unearthed some heartbreaking human stories' --Evening Standard
'This book reads with the emotional intensity of fiction, yet it rigorously trails the realities of ordinary people'
--Independent
'This remarkable book confirms our fears but does much more ... Barbara Demick is a reporter of impressive tenacity and thoroughness' --The Times
`This compelling book is a worthy winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson prize' --Guardian
`I've never read anything quite like it ... Demick has unearthed some heartbreaking human stories' --Evening Standard
'This book reads with the emotional intensity of fiction, yet it rigorously trails the realities of ordinary people'
--Independent
Product Description
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2010. A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world's least ordinary country, North Korea.
About the Author
Barbara Demick is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club's award for human rights reporting as well as awards from the Asia Society and the American Academy of Diplomacy. Her coverage of Sarajevo for The Philadelphia Inquirer won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. Her previous book is Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.
