Back to the bookshelf

Nothing to Envy cover

Nothing to Envy

by Barbara Demick

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2021
  • First published 2009

history cold war asian

Follows six ordinary North Koreans in the city of Chongjin from the 1990s famine to their escape.   It shows daily life under the regime and what the famine did to people.