Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick is a poignant and eye-opening exploration of life in the elusive and mysterious country of North Korea. Through the detailed accounts of six ordinary citizens, Demick sheds light on the daily experiences, dreams, and struggles of those living under one of the world's most oppressive regimes. WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR...

An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the world's most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood. A gripping portrait of contemporary Tibet, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. In the 1930s, Mao's Red Army fled to the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the...

Excellent...entrancing and disturbing. The New York Times One of the world's best investigative journalists tells the true story of Chinese twins forcibly separated as babies through adoption trafficking, raised on opposite sides of the globe and only reunited as teens. In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government...