Nous n'avons rien à envier au reste du monde

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In North Korea, where every move is monitored, two teenagers discover love. Yoon Gi is from a lower class, while Mi Ran's parents, members of the Party elite, have already promised her to a student from the capital. However, a glance exchanged during a public execution will turn their lives upside down. Under the ever-present gaze of the neighbourhood brigades and State Security, their clandestine passion becomes a silent form of resistance. How can they love each other in a dictatorship where the slightest misstep can lead to a re-education camp? How can they dream of freedom when everything encourages submission? With Nous n'avons rien à envier au reste du monde (We Have Nothing to Envy the Rest of the World), Nicolas Gaudemet delivers a moving novel, both an intimate story and a political fresco, where passion struggles to exist in the ordinary horror of a totalitarian regime. A North Korean Romeo and Juliet, which questions the limits of courage, rebellion and hope within us.