Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea.
North Korea is Orwell’s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity.
After the death of the country’s great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy – winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction – weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea’s third-largest city.
This is a wonderfully brave account of life in the world’s most oppressive country.
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