Anna Funder - Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder.


# ISBN-13: 9781862076556
# Publisher: Granta UK
# Publication date: 6/17/2004
# Pages: 304


In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder's bestselling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany.


She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a sixteen-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger of the East," once declared by the authorities -- to his face -- "no longer to exist." And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder's powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.


Each enthralling story depicts what it's like to live in Berlin as the city knits itself back together - or fails to. This is a history full of emotion, attitude, and complexity.


Review:
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"Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic." -- Claire Tomalin, Guardian "Books ofthe Year".



Author:
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Anna Funder's international bestseller, Stasiland, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. Her debut novel, All That I Am, has won many prizes, including the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award. Anna Funder lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and children.



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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226369.Stasiland - 4.15/5

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