Barbara Demick is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Demick is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a contributor to The New Yorker, and was recently a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“The narrow boundaries of our knowledge have expanded radically
with the publication of Los Angeles Times correspondent Barbara
Demick’s Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. . . .
Elegantly structured and written, Nothing To Envy is a
groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction.”–Slate
“Excellent . . . lovely work of narrative nonfiction . . . a book
that offers extensive evidence of the author’s deep knowledge of
this country while keeping its sights firmly on individual stories
and human details.”–New York Times
“A deeply moving book.”–Wall Street Journal
“Superbly reported account of life in North Korea.’’–Bloomberg
“There’s a simple way to determine how well a journalist has
reported a story, internalized the details, seized control of the
narrative and produced good work. When you read the result, you
forget the journalist is there. Barbara Demick, the Los Angeles
Times’ Beijing bureau chief, has aced that test in “Nothing to
Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea,” a clear-eyed and deeply
reported look at one of the world’s most dismal places.’’–Cleveland
Plain Dealer
“The ring of authority as well as the suspense of a
novel.’’–Washington Times
“Excellent new book is one of only a few that have made full use of
the testimony of North Korean refugees and defectors. A delightful,
easy-to-read work of literary nonfiction, it humanizes a
downtrodden, long-suffering people whose individual lives, hopes
and dreams are so little known abroad that North Koreans are often
compared to robots. . . . The tale of the star-crossed lovers,
Jun-sang and Mi-ran, is so charming as to have inspired reports
that Hollywood might be interested.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“In a stunning work of investigation, Barbara Demick removes North
Korea’s mask to reveal what lies beneath its media censorship and
repressive dictatorship.”–Daily Beast
“In spite of the strict restrictions on foreign press, awardwinning
journalist Demick caught telling glimpses of just how surreal and
mournful life is in North Korea. . . . Strongly written and
gracefully structured, Demick’s potent blend of personal narratives
and piercing journalism vividly and evocatively portrays courageous
individuals and a tyrannized state.”—Booklist
“These are the stories you’ll never hear from North Korea’s state
news agency.”–New York Post
“At times a page-turner, at others an intimate study in
totalitarian psychology. Demick . . . takes us inside the minds of
her subjects, rendering them as complex, often compelling
characters—not the brainwashed parodies we see marching in unison
in TV reports.”–Philadelphia Inquirer
“The last time I read a book with something truly harrowing or
pitiful or sad on every page it was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and
those characters had the good fortune to not be real.”–St. Louis
Magazine
"The narrow boundaries of our knowledge have expanded radically
with the publication of Los Angeles Times correspondent
Barbara Demick's Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. .
. . Elegantly structured and written, Nothing To Envy is a
groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction."-Slate
"Excellent . . . lovely work of narrative nonfiction . . . a book
that offers extensive evidence of the author's deep knowledge of
this country while keeping its sights firmly on individual stories
and human details."-New York Times
"A deeply moving book."-Wall Street Journal
"Superbly reported account of life in North
Korea.''-Bloomberg
"There's a simple way to determine how well a journalist has
reported a story, internalized the details, seized control of the
narrative and produced good work. When you read the result, you
forget the journalist is there. Barbara Demick, the Los Angeles
Times' Beijing bureau chief, has aced that test in "Nothing to
Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea," a clear-eyed and deeply
reported look at one of the world's most dismal
places.''-Cleveland Plain Dealer
"The ring of authority as well as the suspense of a
novel.''-Washington Times
"Excellent new book is one of only a few that have made full use of
the testimony of North Korean refugees and defectors. A delightful,
easy-to-read work of literary nonfiction, it humanizes a
downtrodden, long-suffering people whose individual lives, hopes
and dreams are so little known abroad that North Koreans are often
compared to robots. . . . The tale of the star-crossed lovers,
Jun-sang and Mi-ran, is so charming as to have inspired reports
that Hollywood might be interested."-San Francisco
Chronicle
"In a stunning work of investigation, Barbara Demick removes North
Korea's mask to reveal what lies beneath its media censorship and
repressive dictatorship."-Daily Beast
"In spite of the strict restrictions on foreign press, awardwinning
journalist Demick caught telling glimpses of just how surreal and
mournful life is in North Korea. . . . Strongly written and
gracefully structured, Demick's potent blend of personal narratives
and piercing journalism vividly and evocatively portrays courageous
individuals and a tyrannized state."-Booklist
"These are the stories you'll never hear from North Korea's state
news agency."-New York Post
"At times a page-turner, at others an intimate study in
totalitarian psychology. Demick . . . takes us inside the minds of
her subjects, rendering them as complex, often compelling
characters-not the brainwashed parodies we see marching in unison
in TV reports."-Philadelphia Inquirer
"The last time I read a book with something truly harrowing or
pitiful or sad on every page it was Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and
those characters had the good fortune to not be real."-St.
Louis Magazine
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