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

An utterly compelling read, this is the story of ordinary people in the most extraordinary circumstances. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick is the book we're discussing tonight in the book group I'm attending. A foreign correspondent describes life in one of the world's most repressive dictatorships in a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick (2010). Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. It's an account of life in North Korea based on interviews with refugees who have defected to South Korea. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. It's called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. €�Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick is in my top five! Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Thank you Jonah, I have also been referred to the February-March issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Nothing to envy A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens.