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Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (2009 original; edición 2010)

por Barbara Demick

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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.
Miembro:thewestwing
Título:Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Autores:Barbara Demick
Información:Granta Books (2010), Paperback, 314 pages
Colecciones:Politics, History, Presidential Politics, American History, American Politics, Tu biblioteca, Actualmente leyendo
Valoración:*****
Etiquetas:North Korea, Biography

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Querido líder : vivir en Corea del Norte por Barbara Demick (2009)

  1. 93
    Pyongyang por Guy Delisle (lorax)
    lorax: Pyongyang is an outsider's view of the one part of the country where foreigners are generally permitted; Nothing to Envy is an inside look at ordinary life elsewhere in the country where the situation is even grimmer.
  2. 20
    Kim Il-song's North Korea: por Helen-Louise Hunter (wandering_star)
    wandering_star: Credited in Nothing To Envy as one of the sources of info about DPRK.
  3. 20
    Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West por Blaine Harden (Stbalbach, rebeccanyc)
    Stbalbach: Amazing story of escape from a North Korea prison camp.
    rebeccanyc: Demick's book explores the lives of several people who lived in and escaped from North Korea, while Harden's focuses on one individual who was born in and escaped from a North Korean slave labor camp. The two books complement each other.
  4. 20
    Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad por Melanie Kirkpatrick (TomWaitsTables)
  5. 20
    Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite por Suki Kim (Nickelini)
    Nickelini: Both books are compelling, fascinating reads. Nothing to Envy covers a broad scope, and Without You, There is No Us has a tight focus. They explore the North Korean regime from different angles.
  6. 10
    This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood por Hyok Kang (justine28)
    justine28: This is Paradise is a first-hand account of North Korean regime and especially the 1990s famine as experienced by a defector. Very similar to the stories gathered by Demick - a journalist. The two books complement each other.
  7. 00
    Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal por Geoff Childs (meggyweg)
  8. 00
    The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters por B. R. Myers (g33kgrrl)
  9. 04
    La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao por Junot Díaz (weener)
    weener: One is fiction, one is non-fiction. One is in Latin America, one is in Asia. Both are heartbreaking, deeply affecting tales of life under totalitarianism.
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Very well done look at North Korea, thanks to those who were willing to relive the best and worst details of their lives to share with the world.

See the full review and more at baileysbooks.home.blog!

Recommended: ABSOLUTELY
For those who know nothing about North Korea, for those who know a boatload about North Korea, for a fantastic history of the country (and the whole peninsula, really), for moving stories of the people who grew up there, for an incredibly comprehensive and personal set of biographies

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Oh, wow. So I am not a beginner in learning about North Korea, but this book was a whole new style of writing about it that I deeply appreciated and was seriously impressed by. Although these are true stories of people who grew up in North Korea before making their way out of North Korea, it most often read like a novel. Barbara Demick was able to construct painfully relatable experiences from the numerous interviews she conducted with the people she met who had defected. Historical context is given as well, to help the reader understand the significance of events and actions that are occurring.

I mean... I'm just blown away by this. An absolutely fantastic compilation, and my gratitude to all who contributed to it - especially the defectors who relived some of the most painful parts of their lives in great detail and shared it with the world.

Stunningly effective writing brings each person to life on the page until you feel as though you know them inside and out, which makes their losses hurt all the more. The most chilling aspect of this is remembering that these are real people, these stories being told actually happened, and most of all that there are countless other people for whom these stories are still their daily life experience. ( )
  Jenniferforjoy | Jan 29, 2024 |
Amazing book about a nearly unbelievable place. I hope, in view of Kim Jong-Il's death today, that Barbara Demick will get a huge amount of well-deserved attention! ( )
  fmclellan | Jan 23, 2024 |
Reading this book felt eerily similar to reading books about the Holocaust. Not in content, necessarily, (although there are overlaps), but in the emotions it brought out of me and the depth at which I felt them.

Absolutely fantastic book. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Wow! What a horrible life folks live in North Korea and all because of one sick dictator and his lemmings. He and they should be charged and convicted with crimes against humanity. it was an upsetting book to read. ( )
  Katyefk | Jul 13, 2023 |
Barbara Demick gives us a rare glimpse into the day to day life of the people of North Korea. Through the tales of six people who managed to escape the "Hermit Kingdom", we are exposed to horrors that are all but unimaginable.

We read of the initial prosperity of t the 60's and 70's and the decline from there, which ends in the famines of the 1990s. We read of a country where the people are so malnourished the average height to be accepted into the army had to be was lowered(to something like five feet). A country where if you were able to purchase a television set, you would need to register it with the government, who would then block all channels accept the approved state television networks, and could then show up at your home to inspect the television.

As I read this book I had to stop and process the severity of the tales the author was telling us. People starving in such numbers you would literally stumble over dead people in the street. Arrests and deportations of 3 generations of a family for the most minor infractions.

This is a must read for anyone interested in the Stalinist state, although it is at times hard to process due to the overwhelmingly depressing tales. ( )
  melkor1917 | Jul 10, 2023 |
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Barbara Demick's book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea opens with a nighttime satellite image of northeast Asia that shows the bright lights of South Korea and China. In the middle of the photograph is a dark spot — a nation of 23 million people that has little electricity.
añadido por bongiovi | editarNPR (Jan 6, 2010)
 
Nothing to Envy – the title comes from a piece of propaganda aimed at hoodwinking gullible North Korean citizens – is a fascinating work which highlights in the lives of the individuals concerned the triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
 
Elegantly structured and written, Nothing To Envy is a groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction.
 

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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.

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