Arundhati Roy and Sarah Perry longlisted for Women’s prize for nonfiction Sixteen authors – including Lea Ypi, Lyse Doucet and Barbara Demick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes

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Sixteen authors – including #LeaYpi, #LyseDoucet and #BarbaraDemick – are in contention for the £30,000 award, launched to address a historic gender imbalance in nonfiction prizes

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In this landmark addition to the literature of totalitarianism, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il (the father of Kim Jong-un), and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. She takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them.

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How China’s Adoption Market Led to Child Trafficking  | China Books Review In 1991 China allowed foreigners to adopt its children, supposedly abandoned by parents because of the one-child policy. But some had been taken or trafficked to feed a growing demand.

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Baby snatchers abducted a Chinese toddler and sent her to a U.S. adoption agency. A decade later, Barbara Demick reunited her with her birth family.

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Children in the Frame: Idealism vs. Reality ✉️📚🕊️

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