Anna Funder
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| Title | : | Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall |
| Author | : | Anna Funder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | January 15th 2004 by Granta Books (Uk) (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Cultural. Germany. Politics |
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their countrymen and women, there are a thousand stories just waiting to get out. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany - she meets Miriam, who as a 16-year-old might have started World War III, visits the man who painted the line which became the Berlin Wall and gets drunk with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the East, once declared by the authorities to his face to 'no longer to exist'. Written with wit and literary flair, Stasiland provides a rivetting insight into life behind the wall.Point Books Conducive To Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
| Original Title: | Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall |
| ISBN: | 1862076553 (ISBN13: 9781862076556) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Berlin(Germany) East Germany |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2003), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2004) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 11693 Users | 1134 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
As the most visibly catastrophic wreckage of the Cold War, the gray horror of life in the German Democratic Republic-- East Germany--- was carefully choreographed by the security apparatus, the Stasi. The basics of state control were expanded to previously unimaginable heights with the Stasi's network of informants and secret police.Anna Funder's participatory journalism brings the ghosts of this bizarre surveillance state out to tell their own story in the vivid Stasiland, which manages to beThoughts soon.
*Any political comments will receive the axe. Dont try to provoke me, youll fail miserably.* Peter Fechter, the eighteen-year- old shot trying to escape in 1962 and left to die on the death strip, because each side thought the other would retaliate if they went to help him. Someone has thrown him a roll of bandages, but he lies immobile and bleeding.This book doesnt need many words. Anna Funder has created a punch in the stomach, a work that you could characterise as Orwellian if it werent for
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ETA: I want to make myself really clear. I wanted to give this book five stars. That is how I reacted; I thought it was amazing and astounding what the author depicted through this book. It was only my head that reduced one star because I was a bit annoyed by some of the generalizations. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but it sure did surprise me. Being a book of non-fiction I expected objectivity in its analysis of life behind the Wall. The author is not impartial. Shouldn't one be impartial
you expected seediness and corruption, but not ridiculousness, huh? It almost sounds like you feel totalitarianism has been defamed or something.
Horror romance. I can't think of anything better than what Anna Funder came up with to describe the fascination with life in the DDR, behind the Berlin wall and under the microscope (real perverts use petrie dishes. Fact!). It's like that tv show with Tim Roth (the name escapes me right now. My mom "treated" me to a long speech like their techniques to spot liars would actually work and then forced reasons to try them on absolutely everyone and kept calling me a liar for stupid things. I imagine
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