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This audio study guide for Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the effects of propaganda, privacy, and discrimination. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Based on interviews with North Korean defectors from the city of Chongjin, Nothing to Envy profiles six people whose lives convey the history of modern Korea, from the end of Japanese occupation after WWII, to the division of Korea into two countries, to the economic rise and fall of the North Korean state in the late 20th century.

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