Anna Fifield se zaměřuje na zkoumání uzavřených společností a mechanismů společenských změn. Její novinářská práce, která zahrnuje rozsáhlé reportáže z Asie a zejména ze Severní Koreje, se vyznačuje hlubokým vhledem do jinak nepřístupných kultur. Prostřednictvím svého psaní nabízí čtenářům jedinečnou perspektivu na složité politické a sociální dynamiky. Její reportáže jsou ceněny pro svou autoritu a důkladnost.
Zkušená americká novinářka Anna Fifield předkládá jedinečný a brilantní vhled do nejbizarnějšího a nejuzavřenějšího politického režimu na světě. Při získávání informací měla možnost pracovat nejen s lidmi z bezprostředního okolí Kim Čong-una, ale také s emigranty včetně těch, kteří zastávali v systému Severní Koreje vysoké funkce. Výsledkem je dokonalý portrét Dokonalého soudruha, zasazený do širších historických souvislostí i celé komunisticko-feudální „Kimovské“ dynastie.
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command. One of the most knowledgeable journalists on modern Korea, Anna Fifield has exclusive access to Kim's aunt and uncle who posed as his parents while he was growing up in Switzerland, members of the entourage that accompanied Dennis Rodman on his quasi-ambassadorial visits with Kim, and the Japanese sushi chef whom Kim befriended and who was the first outsider to identify him as the inevitable successor to his father as supreme ruler. She has been able to create a captivating portrait of the oddest and most isolated political regime in the world, one that is broken yet able to summon a US president for peace talks, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un; ridiculous but deadly, and a man of our times
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command. One of the most knowledgeable journalists on modern Korea, Anna Fifield has exclusive access to Kim's aunt and uncle who posed as his parents while he was growing up in Switzerland, members of the entourage that accompanied Dennis Rodman on his quasi-ambassadorial visits with Kim, and the Japanese sushi chef whom Kim befriended and who was the first outsider to identify him as the inevitable successor to his father as supreme ruler. She has been able to create a captivating portrait of the oddest and most isolated political regime in the world, one that is broken yet able to summon a US president for peace talks, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un; ridiculous but deadly, and a man of our times.
