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Author: Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, 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 most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.
Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.
获奖的新闻工作者芭芭拉·德米克带领我们进入了一个过去从未见过的国度，她让我们深刻体会到，生活在最压迫的极权主义政权下会是什么感受──这是个欧威尔笔下的世界，没有网路，广播与电视选台钮全固定在政府频道上，就连表露情感也会遭到惩罚；在这个警察国家里，告密者受到奖赏，而无心的言论很可能让人终生监禁于古拉格。
德米克带领我们穿过政府的重重检查，进入到北朝鲜深处。从谨慎而敏锐的报导中，我们看到她的六名主角──他们全是寻常的北朝鲜平民──恋爱、养家活口、怀揣野心，以及努力求生。一个接一个，他们终于发现自己被政府背叛，而我们全程参与了他们的心路历程。
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, 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 most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.
Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.
获奖的新闻工作者芭芭拉·德米克带领我们进入了一个过去从未见过的国度，她让我们深刻体会到，生活在最压迫的极权主义政权下会是什么感受──这是个欧威尔笔下的世界，没有网路，广播与电视选台钮全固定在政府频道上，就连表露情感也会遭到惩罚；在这个警察国家里，告密者受到奖赏，而无心的言论很可能让人终生监禁于古拉格。
德米克带领我们穿过政府的重重检查，进入到北朝鲜深处。从谨慎而敏锐的报导中，我们看到她的六名主角──他们全是寻常的北朝鲜平民──恋爱、养家活口、怀揣野心，以及努力求生。一个接一个，他们终于发现自己被政府背叛，而我们全程参与了他们的心路历程。