Ebook: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years--a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today--an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nuture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them."--Back cover.;Holding Hands in the Dark -- Tainted Blood -- The True Believer -- Fade To Black -- Victorian Romance -- Twilight Of The God -- Two Beer Bottles For Your IV -- The Accordion and the Blackboard -- The Good Die First -- Mothers of Invention -- Wandering Swallows -- Sweet Disorder -- Frogs in the Well -- The River -- Epiphany -- The Bartered Bride -- Open Your Eyes, Shut Your Mouth -- The Promised Land -- Strangers in the Homeland -- Reunions -- The Third Generation.