AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship in these harrowing,personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor’s The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch’s WeWish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder’s Stasilandisa masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness andthe compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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Author(s)Funder, Anna
PublisherHarper Perennial
ISBN / ASIN0062077325
ISBN-139780062077325
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank82,716
CategoryHistory
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian“Books ofthe Year”
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