Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea / Barbara Demick.
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: xii, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385523905
- 0385523904
- 9780385523912
- spine title : Nothing to envy
- Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2010.
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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.
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.
Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2010.
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