Nothing to Envy
Subtitle: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: October 5, 2010
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780385523912
Subjects: History -- Asia -- Korea; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups
Description: 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.