The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, one of today’s leading reporters.| Barbara Demick
EAT THE BUDDHA– named one of the best books of 2020 by the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Outside Magazine, Geographical Magazine (U.K) The post EAT THE BUDDHA– named one of the best books of 2020 appeared first on Barbara Demick.| Barbara Demick
In “The Unwomanly Face of War,” an oral history of World War II, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich recounts a strange little story. A woman leaps into dark water to rescue a drowning man. At the shore, however, she realizes it is not a man she has hauled from the water but a gigantic … The post New York Times Daily Book Review: Eat The Buddha appeared first on Barbara Demick.| Barbara Demick
Journalist Demick does for Tibet what she did for Sarajevo in Logavina Street (1996) and North Korea in Nothing to Envy(2010): reveal the lives of individuals struggling against state tyranny and violence. Read full review| Barbara Demick
