Nothing to Envy
$69.99
Subject: Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction
Publisher: Tantor Audio Pa
Date Published: 03-2010
ISBN: 161587092X | EAN: 9781615870929
BasicBinding: Pre-Recorded Audio Player
Features: Unabridged
Annotation: 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.
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.
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