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A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Jealousy is just an amazing watch into North Korea, as viewed through the lives of six regular citizens Award-winning correspondent Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean people over fifteen years—a disorderly time that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his daughter Kim Jong-il, and a disastrous famine that killed one-fifth of the populace. Demick brings to life what this means to be living underneath the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that's by-choice not attached to the Web, where displays of love are disciplined, informants are compensated, and an offhand comment may send an individual to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep within the nation, beyond the reach of government censors, and through careful and delicate reporting her subjects are seen by us battle for success, raise families, feed goals, and fall in love. 1 by 1, we see their serious, life-changing disillusionment with the federal government and their conclusion that, in the place of supplying them with lifestyles of variety, their nation has tricked them.