Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Demick, Barbara. frey50

Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea / Print Barbara Demick. - Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2010. - xii, 316 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Paperback book

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.

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Koreans--Social conditions--Korea (North)--21st century
Koreans--Economic conditions--Korea (North)--21st century
KOREANS.
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
CASE STUDIES.
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
Economic history.
Social history.


Korea (North)--Social conditions--21st century.--.

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