Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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Title: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Author: Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Year: 2009
336 pages

Demick uses the life stories of several North Koreans as a framework to give shape to and personalize a history of North Korea, and the effects of that history and politics on these storytellers' lives. This creates a more intimate and nuanced account than many, rendering daily life in North Korea more accessible to the outside reader.