TY  - BOOK
AU  - Demick,Barbara
TI  - Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea 
SN  - 9780385523905
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Spiegel & Grau
KW  - Koreans
KW  - Korea (North)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references : pages 299-314; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -