Stasiland

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Author : Anna Funder
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781862075801
Edition : Reprint
ISBN : 1862075808
Label : Granta Books
Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
Manufacturer : Granta Books
Number Of Items : 1
Number Of Pages : 304
Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 9.20 inches (Length) x 1.05 pounds (Weight) x 6.00 inches (Width)
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2003-06-05
Publisher : Granta Books
SKU : ACOUK_book_usedlikenew_1862075808
Studio : Granta Books

Anna Funder's penetrating and dispassionate Stasiland really begins with one significant date: the year 1989. The Berlin Wall falls and the history of a country that had become a microcosm of the Cold War is changed irrevocably. With the hated symbol of the enforced division between East and West reduced to rubble, the two Germanys--East and West--are able to reunite; grey, depressed East Germany becomes a memory. After the initial euphoria, the change was hard for the world to accept, but it was both exhilarating and unsettling for the denizens of the Soviet bloc state, who had lived under the brutal, paranoid regime of the secret police, the dreaded Stasi of the title. For the inhabitants of East Germany, there were some stark statistics: one in 50 East Germans had informed on a fellow citizen, and human beings behaved in fashions unthinkable just the space of a wall away. The amazing stories that Anna Funder tells in Stasiland bring to life with extraordinary vividness both the dark and the more human sides of life in the former East Germany: a young girl who could have started World War III, the man who laid down the line that became the Wall. These and a hundred other tales (from both the recent past and the present, as Berlin still struggles with the legacy of history) make for a highly unusual book, the final effect of which is as life-affirming and positive as the destruction of the Wall must have been for those who watched. --Barry Forshaw

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