- Title:
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Stasiland
- Written by:
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Anna Funder
- Read by:
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Denica Fairman
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 39 minutes
- Published:
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October 20 2020
- Available Date:
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October 20 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655684985
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biography
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author
Anna Funder’s Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny and resistance in the former East Germany.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist.
Anna Funder’s bestselling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, once declared by the authorities – to his face – ‘no longer to exist’. And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder’s powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.
‘Funder is a superb interviewer … she truly excels in the rendering of her sessions with former Stasi employees.'
Sunday Times
‘A brilliant account of the passionate search for a brutal history ... a masterpiece ... written almost like a novel, with a perfect mix of compassion and distance.’
Sunday Times