{"product_id":"stasiland-stories-from-behind-the-berlin-wall-paperback","title":"Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Funder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eStasiland\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.\" -- Claire Tomalin, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e \"Books of the Year\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: a powerfully moving account of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain--and, especially, of life under the iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany's brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor's \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Wall \u003c\/em\u003eand Philip Gourevitch's \u003cem\u003eWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families\u003c\/em\u003e, Funder's \u003cem\u003eStasiland \u003c\/em\u003eis a masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness and the compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder's bestselling \u003cem\u003eStasiland\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135849238663,"sku":"9780062077325","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1c6500ec5e11bb7727374fd27a093dbf.webp?v=1732652354","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/stasiland-stories-from-behind-the-berlin-wall-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}