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No cover — Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy (Paperback, 2010, Spiegel & Grau)

Paperback, 336 pages

Published Oct. 5, 2010 by Spiegel & Grau.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-52391-2
OCLC Number:: 664521021

(2 reviews)

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.

4 editions

fastfinge reviewed Nothing to Envy by Karen White

Review of 'Nothing to Envy' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This is the most depressing thing I have read in a while. But if you're at all interested in North Korea, this is quite a good book. The audio edition is worth it, mostly to hear the names pronounced correctly.

kerry

rated it

March 24, 2017

Subjects

History -- Asia -- Korea
Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural
Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology
Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups