Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

In this anecdotal history, Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all the former East Germany. Stasiland is a powerful account of the courage of those who withstood the dictatorship and the consequences for those who from Miriam, a 16-year-old who failed a desperate attempt to scale the Wall, to an ex-Stasi cartographer living in an apartment lined with propaganda. This is a lyrical and gripping debut novel.