Barbara Demick

Corea del Norte es uno de los países más crípticos del mundo, por lo que la curiosidad por el régimen sigue suscitando un insaciable interés. En esta obra ya clásica, probablemente la mejor nunca escrita sobre el pais asiatico e hito en la literatura del totalitarismo, la periodista Barbara Demick consigue sumergir al lector en la vida y los tormentos de seis norcoreanos, que se enamoran, forman familias, alimentan sus ambiciones y luchan por la supervivencia en el regimen mas represivo de la actualidad; un mundo orwelliano que, por eleccion propia, no esta conectado a Internet, donde las muestras de afecto se castigan, los informantes son recompensados y un comentario desafortunado puede encerrar a una persona de por vida.Querido Lider, galardonada con el prestigioso premio Samuel Johnson, nos adentra en lo mas profundo del pais, mas alla del alcance de los censores del gobierno y cuenta la historia no oficial de una sociedad tan misteriosa como siniestra. Demick logra dar vida a un retrato apocaliptico y permite al lector descubrir un lugar donde veintidos millones de personas viven, trabajan y sueñan dia a dia con una vida distinta.

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. Nothing to Envy, won the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and has sold over 65.000 copies. Published on the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo. With an 8 page plate ssection of photographs taken by John Costello.

Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea''s third largest city. Two lovers, who dated secretly for a decade, feared to criticise the regime to each other. A loyal factory worker watched her husband and son die of starvation before escaping the country. In telling the stories of Chongin''s residents. she has recreated the lifestyles of North Korean citizens from their interests and concerns to their culture.

North Korea is Orwells 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the countrys great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: people stumbled over dead bodies in the street and ate tree bark to survive. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Koreas third largest city. From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.

"Rien à envier au reste du monde" : telle est la devise de la Corée du Nord.Après six décennies, ce régime totalitaire demeure l’un des vestiges des la Guerre Froide. Pour la première fois, ce livre,

Longtemps perçu comme le royaume inatteignable des moines bouddhistes, berceau d’une culture résolument pacifique, le Tibet demeure une terre interdite, occupée et gérée d’une main de fer par la Chin

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 A most perceptive and eye opening account of everyday life in North Korea Jung ChangNorth Korea is Orwell s Nineteen Eighty Four made reality it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet where Gone with the Wind is a dangerous banned book and where during political rallies spies study your expression to check your sincerity Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin North Korea s third largest city From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country Includes an updated afterword by the author Impossible to put down helps restore humanity to some of the world s most oppressed people Observer

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, unified by their common identity as Sarajevans. Then the war tore it all apart. As she did in her groundbreaking work about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of the Bosnian War and the brutal and devastating three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo through the lives of ordinary citizens, who struggle with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings. Logavina Street paints this misunderstood war and its effects in vivid strokesat once epic and intimaterevealing the heroism, sorrow, resilience, and uncommon faith of its people. With a new Introduction, final chapter, and Epilogue by the author

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to EnvyA brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post NPR The Economist Outside Foreign AffairsJust as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedongs Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butterto Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation. Eat the Buddha spans decades of modern Tibetan and Chinese history, as told through the private lives of Demicks subjects, among them a princess whose family is wiped out during the Cultural Revolution, a young Tibetan nomad who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirti, an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who falls in love with a Chinese woman, a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance, and a Tibetan schoolgirl forced to choose at an early age between her family and the elusive lure of Chinese money. All of them face the same dilemma: Do they resist the Chinese, or do they join them? Do they adhere to Buddhist teachings of compassion and nonviolence, or do they fight? Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve ones culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by Chinas one-child policy and the rise of international adoptionfrom the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to EnvyRemarkable . . . Barbara Demick movingly traces this history of overseas Chinese adoptions and their ripple effects on both sides of the Pacific.The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER J. WELLES MEMORIAL PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE BAIFANG SCHELL BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, The EconomistOn a warm day in September 2000, a woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut behind her brothers home in Chinas Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions to her family but also not her first children. Living under the shadow of Chinas notorious one-child policy, Zanhua and her husband decided to leave one twin in the care of relatives, hoping each toddler on their own might stay under the radar. But, in 2002, Fangfang was violently snatched away. The family worried they would never see her again, but they didnt imagine she could be sent as far as the United States. She might as well have been sent to another world.Following stories she wrote as the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick embarks on a journey that encompasses the origins, shocking cruelty, and long-term impact of Chinas one-child rule; the rise of international adoption and the religious currents that buoyed it; and the exceedingly rare phenomenon of twin separation. Today, Estherformerly Fangfanglives in Texas, and Demick brings to vivid life the Christian family that felt called to adopt her, unaware that she had been kidnapped. Through Demicks indefatigable reporting, will the long-lost sisters finally reuniteand will they feel whole again?A remarkable window into the volatile, constantly changing China of the last half century and the long-reaching legacy of the countrys most infamous law, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove is also the moving story of two sisters torn apart by the forces of history and brought together again by their families determination and one reporters dogged work.Excellent . . . entrancing and disturbing . . . [Demick] is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. . . . [Her] characters are richly drawn, and her stories, often reported over a span of years, deliver a rare emotional wallop.The New York Times

La prestigiosa periodista y autora del clásico contemporáneo Querido líder, se sumerge en la realidad de un pequeño pueblo tibetano para explicarnos su historia y vida cotidiana.Como hiciera enQuerido Lider, su emblematica obra sobre Corea del norte, la reportera Barbara Demick se adentra de nuevo en la vida cotidiana de otro de los rincones olvidados de nuestro planeta, el Tibet.Situada por encima de los tres mil metros de altitud, Ngawa sigue siendo uno de los principales focos de resistencia de los tibetanos contra China. Fue alli donde por primera vez se encontraron los tibetanos con los chinos comunistas que huian de la guerra civil. Hambrientos y agotados, los soldados engullian las figuras de Buda hechas con harina y mantequilla que decoraban los templos y monasterios ante los ojos horrorizados de la poblacion local. Empezaba asi una historia de desencuentros que aun perdura.A partir de la vida de una princesa expulsada durante la revolucion, un nomada tibetano que acaba radicalizandose, un emprendedor enamorado de una mujer china, un poeta e intelectual voz de la resistencia y una niña obligada desde pequeña a elegir entre su familia y el dinero chino, el libro aborda el dilema al que los tibetanos llevan decadas enfrentandose: resistir o someterse.

Como hiciera en Querido Líder, su emblemática obra sobre Corea del norte, la reportera Barbara Demick se adentra de nuevo en la vida cotidiana de otro de los rincones olvidados de nuestro planeta, el Tibet.Situada por encima de los tres mil metros de altitud, Ngawa sigue siendo uno de los principales focos de resistencia de los tibetanos contra China. Fue alli donde por primera vez se encontraron los tibetanos con los chinos comunistas que huian de la guerra civil. Hambrientos y agotados, los soldados engullian las figuras de Buda hechas con harina y mantequilla que decoraban los templos y monasterios ante los ojos horrorizados de la poblacion local. Empezaba asi una historia de desencuentros que aun perdura.A partir de la vida de una princesa expulsada durante la revolucion, un nomada tibetano que acaba radicalizandose, un emprendedor enamorado de una mujer china, un poeta e intelectual voz de la resistencia y una niña obligada desde pequeña a elegir entre su familia y el dinero chino, el libro aborda el dilema al que los tibetanos llevan decadas enfrentandose: resistir o someterse.

Corea del Norte es uno de los países más crípticos del mundo, por lo que la curiosidad por el régimen sigue suscitando un insaciable interés. En esta obra ya clásica, probablemente la mejor nunca escrita sobre el pais asiatico e hito en la literatura del totalitarismo, la periodista Barbara Demick consigue sumergir al lector en la vida y los tormentos de seis norcoreanos, que se enamoran, forman familias, alimentan sus ambiciones y luchan por la supervivencia en el regimen mas represivo de la actualidad; un mundo orwelliano que, por eleccion propia, no esta conectado a Internet, donde las muestras de afecto se castigan, los informantes son recompensados y un comentario desafortunado puede encerrar a una persona de por vida.Querido Lider, galardonada con el prestigioso premio Samuel Johnson, nos adentra en lo mas profundo del pais, mas alla del alcance de los censores del gobierno y cuenta la historia no oficial de una sociedad tan misteriosa como siniestra. Demick logra dar vida a un retrato apocaliptico y permite al lector descubrir un lugar donde veintidos millones de personas viven, trabajan y sueñan dia a dia con una vida distinta.