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Title: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Author: Barbara Demick

ISBN: 9780385523912

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 336

Condition: Used Copy

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea–a closed world of increasing global importance–hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books)
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD – FINALIST FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD WINNER OF WINNERS AWARD – A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY In this landmark addition to the literature of totalitarianism, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years–a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il (the father of Kim Jong-un), and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive regime today–an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. She takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them.