Demick, Barbara <br/><br/>
Nothing to envy :  ordinary lives in North Korea / 
spine title :  Nothing to envy. 
Barbara Demick. 
 - xii, 314 pages :  illustrations, map ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references : pages 299-314. 
<br/><br/>Holding hands in the dark -- Tainted blood -- The true believer -- Fade to black -- Victorian romance -- Twilight of the god -- Two beer bottles for your IV -- The accordian and the blackboard -- The good die first -- Mothers of invention -- Wandering swallows -- Sweet disorder -- Frogs in the well -- The river -- Epiphany -- The bartered bride -- Open your eyes, shut your mouth -- The promised land -- Strangers in the homeland -- Reunions -- Epilogue : Waiting. 
<br/><br/> Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today. 
<br/><br/> Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2010. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385523905 0385523904 9780385523912  RM161.68 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Koreans--Social conditions--Korea (North)--21st century--Case studies.<br/>Koreans--Economic conditions--Korea (North)--21st century--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Korea (North)--Social conditions--21st century.<br/>Korea (North)--Economic conditions--21st century.