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Barbara Demick
What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs?
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The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption, with powerful empathy for the family caught in the middle-from the author…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW…
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An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the world’s most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood.
A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea. Newly updated in 2013
Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick revisits her compelling account of living in a city under fire.
WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Andrews McMeel … in 1996 –T.p. verso.
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years–a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of…
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