Barbara Demick
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemic NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST In this landmark addition to the literature of totalitarianism,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, [this book] tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized Tibetans...