Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick (Author)

Synopsis

Updated in 2014 with a new epilogue. North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: people stumbled over dead bodies in the street and ate tree bark to survive. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third largest city. From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 314
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 08 Jul 2010

ISBN 10: 184708141X
ISBN 13: 9781847081414
Book Overview: The definitive and celebrated account of real lives in North Korea
Prizes: Winner of BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010.

Author Bio
Barbara Demick's coverage of the war in Sarajevo won the George Polk Award and the Robert F Kennedy Award, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She is now the Beijing Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.