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

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea offers sweeping insight into the day-to-day living of one of the world's most closed societies. 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. Change in Longitude blog posted a thorough review of the book 'Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives In North Korea' by Barbara Demick. 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. Following news over the years, I've always thought of North Korea as a minor thorn in the side of the world, a rogue state with eccentric, perhaps crazy leaders. The book is called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, written by Barbara Demick, a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. It was not a journey I'd expected to take. The Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea It's include Starred Review. Nothing to Envy--Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick tells the true story of six people who lived in North Korea in the late 90s (if you call this living). Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. 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 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. There was a fascinating review of this book, written by Barbara Demick, in the LRB recently. North Korea is a country filled with secrets. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick's affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Without you guys, I'd never have heard about Barbara Demick's excellent book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, and my life would have been the lesser for it. What an eye-opening account to me of what life is like there. This is a non-fiction work about North Koreans.