Stasiland

StasilandAnna Funders Samuel Johnson Prize winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany. In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixteen, and Frau Paul, for whom the Berlin Wall went through my heart. She drinks with the legendary

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