"Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea," by Barbara Demick (Spiegel & Grau, 336 pp., $26). The stories of six North Korean defectors offer a chilling portrait of life in an Orwellian society. (CSMonitor.com review, 2/25/10)
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