Considered by many to be the 'Spanish Kapuscinski', David Jiménez takes us to undiscovered paradises, lost kingdoms, forgotten wars, unlikely heroes, and places where the extremes of the human condition intersect. Translating to 'the happiest place in the world', El Lugar más Feliz del Mundo narrates how North Korea's propaganda describes a country kidnapped by the worst tyranny of our time. It is also one of the stops along the El Mundo correspondent's journey during which he enters a Cambodian prison where the most dangerous paedophiles serve their sentences, attends the arrival of television in the kingdom of Bhutan, accompanies a group of yakuza gangsters in their attempt to leave the underworld, and stays in the deserted city of Fukushima after the nuclear accident that kept the world on tenterhooks. It is from these experiences, often in places gripped by despair, that the author finds the most fascinating characters, the most human situations, and acts of courage capable of making us believe in a better world.

For the cover design, our cover cooks used a photograph to enhance the bitter irony in the title, which quotes the North Korean regime’s joy index once scoring the country as one of 'the happiest places' to live in the world. The typesetting of the title, forcing a line break after each word, adds an aroma of distress and hints to columns used in newspaper layouts.