Lucas Sanchez Sanchez itibaren Trbušće, Bosnien och Hercegovina itibaren Trbušće, Bosnien och Hercegovina

A fascinating, harrowing, and compelling read. You'd think you were reading a retelling of Orwell's 1984, but this is non-fiction. What's most effective about this book is the author tells the stories of everyday citizens of North Korea; well, ex-citizens since Demick interviewed them after they'd defected to South Korea, the only way she could get open communication about life in North Korea. We see via their day-to-day lives what it's like to live in an extreme totalitarian state, and as a citizen of the free world, it's excruciating to read. Yet most North Koreans had been relatively content with their lives, that is, until the famine of the 1990's, when @ 2 million people died of starvation, and all their country could feed them was more ideology. Demick's book puts human faces on the statistics.