Anna Funder
Birth date: January 01, 1966
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Titolo ingannevole. C’era una volta la DDR. Lo pensavo un libro di storia che chiarisse dubbi e colmasse lacune. Pensavo. Appunto. “Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall”. Se anziché stravolgerlo, avessero lasciato il titolo originale, mi sarei attesa altro. Anna Funder incontra alcuni ex...
The statistics tell us that the East German population was the most surveilled population in history. In Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Anna Funder tells her readers that there was a Stasi officer for at least every 63 citizens. The ratio gets closer to 1:6 if the part-time informer...
bookshelves: nonfiction, summer-2014, fraudio, published-2003, tbr-busting-2014, germany, journalism, autobiography-memoir, politics, eye-scorcher, history, berlin, betrayal, casual-violence, cold-war, lifestyles-deathstyles, ouch, rid-the-world-of-tyrants, totalitarian Read from May 22 to July 31...
slow start but I was fully engrossed by the end... tragic story about characters that seem very real!
This is a very well-written story of betrayal, bravery and its shameful opposite, cowardice. In an imagined novel about true events, acclaimed author, Anna Funder, has presented a visual of Hitler’s brutality, the political games played during his regime, and the accompanying blind eye of the world,...