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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

"Nothing To Envy" Ordinary lives in north Korea by Barbara Demick 看的真想去解放朝鲜呀. A gripping, astounding view into North Korea through the lives of six ordinary citizens---an important story that has never been told before. I came across this book — Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick — in a mention from Seraphic Secret. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times' triumphantly successful Nothing to Envy uncovers a romantically human side of North Korea and her disenchanted citizens. Everyone not Kim Jong-Il) North Koreans. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Jack Rendler, Amnesty International's country specialist on North Korea, will give an update on current issues in communist North Korea. Wednesday, November 14, 7:00-8:30 pm, room 329. Today, however, we speak with a journalist who's intimately acquainted with North Korea. Nothing to Envy follows the lives of “ordinary” (i.e., suffering, i.e. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010), 319pp. The title comes from a North Korean propaganda song. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara DemickMy rating: 4 of 5 stars"Nothing to Envy" is the most depressing book in the world.