Stasiland : Stories From

Behind The Berlin Wall

 By
Anna Funder
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 In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies
reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland, winner of
the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize, Anna Funder tells extraordinary
tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, a country
where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum
literally overnight, and one in fifty East Germans were informing on
their countrymen and women. She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-
year-old might have started the Third World War, visits the man
who painted the line which became the Berlin Wall and gets drunk
with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the East, who the authorities once
declared - to his face - to 'no longer exist'.

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