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North Korea, run by a mad dictator, is cut off from the rest of the world, unknown and unknowable. But North Korea is also a place where ordinary people live, dream and learn to survive. Demick draws a powerful portrait of a bizzare society and the very real lives it affects.
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Nothing to envy: Real lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
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- Released
- 2010
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Barbara Demick
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 184708141x
- ISBN13
- 9781847081414
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Politics, Creative Nonfiction, Gifts for grandpa, Stories, Journalism, Narrative Journalism, Escape, Communism, Based on True Events, Crimes of Communism, Human Fates, Totalitarian regimes, North Korea, Famine
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- Rating
- 4.6 out of 5
- Description
- North Korea, run by a mad dictator, is cut off from the rest of the world, unknown and unknowable. But North Korea is also a place where ordinary people live, dream and learn to survive. Demick draws a powerful portrait of a bizzare society and the very real lives it affects.