Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw…
Want to Read $ 9.99"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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1. North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
By: Daniel Tudor , James Pearson
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
By: David John , Hyeonseo Lee
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorshi… read more
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"He’d valued his dignity more than his own life."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
3. This is Paradise!
By: Shaun Whiteside , Hyok Kang , None
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside wor… read more
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4. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
By: Suki Kim
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more
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5. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
By: Bradley K. Martin
3.85
Format: None pages,
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leaderoffers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless… read more
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6. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more
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7. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
By: Yeonmi Park , Maryanne Vollers
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually m… read more
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8. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea
By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent… read more
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9. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By: Blaine Harden
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more
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10. Minus 148 Degrees
By: Art Davidson
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions. read more
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By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.59
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Už pri jej narodení sa vyskytli problémy s identitou, pridelili jej totiž nesprávne rodné číslo. Mo… read more
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4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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4.18
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17. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
18. Ženy, ktoré zostali
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4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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