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Повседневная жизнь в Северной Корее by Barbara Demick, Барбара Демик
26 reviews
kieranyes's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Moderate: Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Trafficking
Minor: Kidnapping, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Deportation
bookshelf_al's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cannibalism
Minor: Domestic abuse and Abortion
lianne_rooney's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Deportation
soulwinds's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Classism
Moderate: Gun violence and Physical abuse
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Alcohol
marissab's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Gaslighting, and War
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation
parasolcrafter's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation
Moderate: Excrement and Cannibalism
ajediprincess's review against another edition
5.0
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a non-fiction account of the lives of six different people growing up and struggling to survive in North Korea across a fifteen year period in the 1990's and into the new millenium. It explores not only the culture, conditions, and political climate of North Korea but what daily life was like for the average citizen during a period of time where the former Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung died, his son Kim Jong-il rose to power, and the country saw a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of their population. It was written by award-winning American journalist Barbara Demick in 2009, following over 100 interviews she conducted with North Korean defectors from Chongjin.
I found it absolutely captivating in the most chilling way. There is political intrigue, love, indoctrination, heartbreak, imagination, censorship, abuse, triumph, devastation, economic collapse, perseverance, propaganda, and the uneasy, ever present threat of betrayal by one's own friends, family, and government. It completely transported me to the time and setting as I followed the day-to-day of each of the main “characters”: Mi-ran, Doctor Kim, Mrs. Song, Hyuck, Oak-hee, and Jun-sang. I watched with rapt suspense as they worked hard to overcome hurdle after hurdle just to survive and avoid finding themselves on the wrong side of the ruthless, totalitarian North Korean regime.
If you enjoy non-fiction and are curious about North Korea, I definitely recommend this book. It's written in such a way that it feels like a 3rd person close narrative, which I found immersive and effective. The author very briefly mentions herself and instead keeps the focus on each of the primary figures and their personal stories, giving us a realistic and sobering look at their experiences. I left this book with a new-found appreciation of the freedoms, rights, and opportunities my own country offers to its citizens. Many thanks to my dear friend, Chelsie, who recommended it to me!
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Domestic abuse
mercurial's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Domestic abuse
chrisiant's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death and Death
Minor: Cannibalism
There are some really tough descriptions of starvation and famine.astrangewind's review against another edition
4.75
The oppression faced by North Koreans is unimaginable, and this book brings that to life through a cast of defectors. The facts tell their own story of the struggle to survive. Reading about the famine was almost too much, but I enjoyed reading about their escape.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, War, and Deportation
Minor: Torture, Trafficking, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail