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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick ebook
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Page: 301
ISBN: 0385523912, 9780385523912
Format: epub

Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. In 2010, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for her work, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. The book was also nominated for the U.S.'s most prestigious literary prize, the National Book Award. What clues do we get in the book about how the North Korean government maintained control after most other communist regimes collapsed or introduced major reforms? Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick While working as the LA Times Korea correspondent, Demick met several North Korean defectors now living in Seoul. The book is called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, written by Barbara Demick, a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2010). Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick (2010). Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. In Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick chronicles the lives of a variety of North Koreans who eventually defected to South Korea. After a long period of reading nothing but novels and books for entertainment, I finally reminded myself that I am meant to be switching to nonfiction every once in a while. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. I have to admit, I was certainly one of those who have never stopped to think “…. George Polk Award and Robert F. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse. €�North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down.