Awards
- Shortlisted for BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010.
- Winner of BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010
- Winner of BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010.
Overview
Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today-an Orwellian world in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, a country that is by choice not connected to the Internet, a society in which outward displays of affection are punished, and a police state that rewards informants and where an offhanded remark can send a citizen to the gulag for life. Demick's subjects-a middle-aged party loyalist and her rebellious daughter, an idealistic female doctor, an orphan, and two young lovers-all hail from the same provincial city in the farthest-flung northern reaches of the country. One by one, we witness the moments of revelation, when each realizes that they have been betrayed by the Fatherland and that their suffering is not a global condition but is uniquely theirs. Nothing to Envy is the first book about North Korea to go deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and penetrate the mind-set of the average citizen. It is a groundbreaking and essential addition to the literature of totalitarianism.
Full Product Details
Author: Barbara Demick ,
Karen White
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
Imprint: Tantor Media, Inc
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 13.70cm
Weight: 0.079kg
ISBN: 9781400109845
ISBN 10: 1400109841
Publication Date: 29 December 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
Strongly written and gracefully structured...[Demick] vividly and evocatively portrays courageous individuals and a tyrannized state within a saga of unfathomable suffering punctuated by faint glimmers of hope. ---Booklist Starred Review
Author Information
Barbara Demick is a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Beijing and the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards.
