The Ministry of Truth (book) Orwell's Ministries of "Nineteen Eighty-Four". "Publishers Weekly" wrote that "the rich, full-color images of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang captured by international photographers Munz and Nikol contain a surreal beauty, often monumental and sparsely populated, that inspires a vivid sense of isolation and uncertainty. ... This slim book provides rare glimpses into the 'world's first postmodern country,' each as illuminating for what it shows as for what it hides." The Ministry of Truth (book) The Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong-Il's North Korea () is a 2006 book by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht and the photographers Eva Munz and Lukas
Plain Truth (novel) Plain Truth (novel) Plain Truth is a novel written by Jodi Picoult about a murder on an Amish farm, first published in 2001. The book tells the story of how a dead infant found on an Amish farm shakes the entire community. As the police investigate the death, they discover that the baby was not stillborn, but died shortly after birth. Police find cloth fibers in the infant's mouth and throat, including bruises on the mouth, which leads them to conclude that he was suffocated. An eighteen-year-old, unmarried Amish girl, Katie Fisher, is charged with murder of her newborn son,