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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall de Anna Funder

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Autor Anna Funder Denica Fairman
en Limba Engleză Digital – 16 noi 2020

East Germany may have been--until now--the most perfected surveillance state of all time. In Stasiland Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship, and of those who worked for its vicious secret police, the Stasi.

She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old was accused of trying to start World War III. She visits the regime's cartographer, a man obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall, then gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger" of the east, once declared by the authorities "no longer to exist." And she finds spies and Stasi men, in hiding but defiant, still loyal to the regime as they lick their wounds and regroup, hoping for the next revolution.

Stasiland is a brilliant, timeless portrait of a Kafkaesque world, as gripping as any thriller. In a world of total surveillance, its celebration of human conscience and courage is as potent as ever.

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ISBN-13: 9781094186924
ISBN-10: 1094186929
Editura: BLACKSTONE PUB

Notă biografică

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

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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.

Recenzii

“Anna Funder’s Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. She found her subject in East Germany, went for it bravely and delivers the goods in a heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure.” — Claire Tomalin, Guardian Books of the Year
“Seduced and repelled by the mythical lost world of Cold War Berlin, Anna Funder reconstructs it by visiting its torture chambers and meeting its citizens. A gripping account of a city’s search for identity under the unexpected burden of freedom” — Scotland on Sunday
“A brilliant account of the brutal histories of people whose lives were shaped by the Berlin Wall.” — Sunday Times (London)
“A brilliant and necessary book about oppression and history. . . . It both devastates and lifts the heart. Here is someone who knows how to tell the truth.” — Rachel Cusk, Evening Standard “Books of the Year”
“A fascinating book. . .written with rare, literary flair. I can think of no better introduction to the brutal reality of East German repression.” — Sunday Telegraph
“Brilliantly illustrates the weird, horrifying, viciously cruel place that was Cold War East Germany…As well as the horror, Funder writes superbly of the absurdities of the Stasi.” — Evening Standard
“Stasiland takes us on a grim journey into a country in which the ratio of watchers to watched was even higher than that of the Soviets under communism.” — The Times (London)
“In a well-researched, personalized account Funder. . .sets out to explore and explain eastern Germany as it is now. With the quick eye of a curious outsider she succeeds in teasing out personal accounts that offer a sometimes shocking, occasionally bizarre and often amusing portrayal of a place that, despite its undeniable achievements since 1989, is still something of a parallel world within united Germany.” — Financial Times
“Funder talks to cleaners, students and even former members of the Stasi to evoke the spirit of the bifurcated, extraordinarily modern city of Berlin.” — Marie Claire
“Funder brings home with chilling detail the sheer human wastefulness of a political system built on deception and betrayal. It’s a terrible story, but written with vivacity and wit.” — Daily Mail (London)
“Tells extraordinary tales of the country after the fall of the Berlin Wall. . . . She also writes superbly about what it is like to live in Berlin today.” — Sunday Telegraph