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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

ordinary lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

314 pages · 2009

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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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