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Nothing To Envy
Nothing to Envy
Subtitle:
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Book Category:
Social Science > General
Author:
DEMICK, BARBARA
Editor::
Julie Grau
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
0385523912
ISBN 13:
9780385523912
Price:
USD 16.00
Publication Year:
2010

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Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years--a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today--an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to government stations, where displays of affection are punished and an offhand remark can send you to the gulag for life. Demick follows six subjects--a party loyalist and her rebellious daughter, a disillusioned young doctor, a hungry young orphan, and a pair of lovers from different classes--as they raise families, nurture ambitions, struggle for survival, and ultimately realize that their government has betrayed them.

 
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