{"product_id":"stasiland-stories-from-behind-the-berlin-wall","title":"Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStasiland\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.\" -- Claire Tomalin, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \"Books of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against the German Democratic Republic'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 one of history's most notorious surveillance states. In the tradition of Frederick Taylor's \u003ci\u003eThe Berlin Wall \u003c\/i\u003eand Philip Gourevitch's \u003ci\u003eWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families\u003c\/i\u003e, Funder's \u003ci\u003eStasiland \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece of investigative reporting and a vital work of twentieth-century history, written with novelistic vividness and the compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough meticulous reporting, Funder reveals the haunting reality of life in the GDR--a world of quiet heroes, conflicted enforcers, and the ghosts left behind by a fallen state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Chilling Surveillance State: \u003c\/b\u003e Delve into the inner workings of the Stasi, a secret police force that used everything from collecting \"smell samples\" in jars to a vast network of informers to control the populace.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnforgettable True Stories: \u003c\/b\u003e Meet Miriam, who became an Enemy of the State at sixteen for distributing leaflets, and Frau Paul, who made an impossible choice to protect a stranger at the cost of seeing her own critically ill child.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLife Behind the Berlin Wall: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience the strange, often absurd reality of the German Democratic Republic, a country that no longer exists but whose secrets still haunt the present day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Perpetrators' Perspective: \u003c\/b\u003e Hear directly from the men who served the regime, from professors who taught the art of recruiting informers to the officer who physically painted the line where the Wall would be built.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984272130279,"sku":"9780062077325","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_48245b73-e6af-4f61-88d1-75e92aca6420.jpg?v=1776315480","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/stasiland-stories-from-behind-the-berlin-wall","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}