Stasiland
Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 20, 2011
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- Who it’s for
- Personal accounts of resistance and secret-police work make East Germany’s dictatorship feel close and human.
- Themes
- Resistance to dictatorship, State surveillance and repression, Life behind the Iron Curtain
- Genres
- Cold War History, German History, Communism & Socialism
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“Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.” — Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books of the Year” Winner 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.
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Anna 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 The Berlin Wall and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder’s Stasiland is a masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness and the compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.
Lives Under Surveillance
Personal accounts of resistance and secret-police work make East Germany’s dictatorship feel close and human.
Come here for
- The human costs of life under the Stasi
- Investigative reporting with novelistic vividness
Expect
- Harrowing personal tales behind the Iron Curtain
- A layered encounter with resistance and complicity
Where it sits
| Cold War History | 68% |
|---|---|
| German History | 61% |
| Communism & Socialism | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- German History
- Fascism & Totalitarianism
- European Politics
- Authors
- Anna Funder
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 20, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Resistance to dictatorship · State surveillance and repression · Life behind the Iron Curtain
- Reading lane
- German History