Dimensions
157 x 233 x 24mm
North Korea - run by a mad dictator, the son of a mad dictator with a mad dictator offspring waiting to take over - is cut off from the rest of the world, unknown and unknowable.
But North Korea is also a place where ordinary people live, dream and learn to survive.
Journalist Barbara Demick had spent a decade covering the region. Then one day in South Korea, she met a young exile, Mi-Ran, who talked to her about life behind the curtain, about the films she used to go to when the country still had electricity and about Jun, the young man she met and fell in love with. All these years later she still wonders what happened to him.
Re-tracing Mi-Ran and Jun's story, and that of the lives of other North Koreans, Demick draws a powerful portrait of a bizarre society and the very real lives it affects.
