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Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea

2009

Format:	Book
Author:	Demick, Barbara.
Title:	Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea / Barbara Demick.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
Description:	xii, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	Koreans -- Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies. Koreans -- Korea (North) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies. Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Korea (North) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Genre:	Case studies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314). Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, 2010.
Contents:	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 accordion 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.
LCCN:	2009022420
ISBN:	9780385523912 0385523912 9780385523905 0385523904
Other Number:	229027465
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Control Number:	249709
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Call Number:	306.095193 Demick

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