Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award with Nothing to Envy, her seminal book on North Korea. Besieged, her account of the war in Sarajevo, was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. Demick's Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Demick is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in New York.

Books by Barbara Demick

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

Barbara Demick

'Excellent…entrancing and disturbing.’ The New York Times

One of the world's best investigative journalists tells the true story of Chinese twins forcibly separated as babies through adoption trafficking, raised on opposite sides of the globe and only reunited as teens.

Eat the Buddha

Barbara Demick

An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the world’s most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood.