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Nothing to envy ordinary lives in North Korea

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.

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Main Author: Demick, Barbara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
Edition:First edition
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-316).
Physical Description:xii, 314 pages illustrations, map 24 cm
Awards:Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2010.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314).
ISBN:9780385523912
0385523912
9780385523905
0385523904
Author Notes:Barbara Demick is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize in the United Kingdom, and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood . Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Demick is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a contributor to The New Yorker , and was recently a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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