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

€�North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick (2010). Arirang Mass Games, North Korea. 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. 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. About: As the title describes – ordinary lives in North Korea. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. The year 1994 was a disaster for North Korea. Award-Winning Journalist Barbara Demick’s NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea By Barbara Demick. It was not a journey I'd expected to take. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick While working as the LA Times Korea correspondent, Demick met several North Korean defectors now living in Seoul. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. The country's Great Leader and Hero of the Revolution, Marshal Kim Il-sung, died suddenly. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010), 319pp.