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

In Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick chronicles the lives of a variety of North Koreans who eventually defected to South Korea. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara DemickMy rating: 4 of 5 stars"Nothing to Envy" is the most depressing book in the world. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. By narrating the life stories of six North Korean defectors and their daily struggles, author Barbara Demick underscores this point beautifully. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick recently won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, and it's easy to see why. The Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea It's include Starred Review. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010), 319pp. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. A foreign correspondent describes life in one of the world's most repressive dictatorships in a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times' triumphantly successful Nothing to Envy uncovers a romantically human side of North Korea and her disenchanted citizens. When my sister Annie came home for my other sister Mollie's bridal shower in March, she had two books to lend to me -- Persepolis and this one. The book is called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, written by Barbara Demick, a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.