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

In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick's affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. What an eye-opening account to me of what life is like there. €�North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. Nothing to Envy--Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick tells the true story of six people who lived in North Korea in the late 90s (if you call this living). It was not a journey I'd expected to take. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick - book review Every month I read a book which I would be unlikely to choose myself. When I woke up this morning and saw that Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean dictator had died, I was thankful that I had read Nothing to Envy a few months ago. Demick describes North Korea, not as an undeveloped country, but as “a country that has fallen out of the developed world.” What does she mean? Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.