Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Resumen del libro

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: people stumbled over dead bodies in the street and ate tree bark to survive. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third largest city.

From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.

Biografía del autor

Barbara Demick es la autora de Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood y de Querido Líder, que fue finalista del National Book Award y del National Book Critics Circle Award y ganador del Premio Samuel Johnson de no ficción en 2010. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de veinticinco idiomas. Demick es redactora de Los Angeles Times y colaboradora de The New Yorker, y recientemente fue nominada como miembro del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores.