Research Catalog

Title

Stasiland / Anna Funder.

Author

Funder, Anna, 1966-

Publication

London : Granta, 2003.

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Details

Description

288 p. : 2 maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"It's Berlin in the 1990s. A city split for forty years by the Wall is trying to knit itself back together - a city where former Stasi men and their victims now pass one another in the street, and where, just under the surface, the Nazi past now lies buried. When Anna Funder hears of ordinary people who resisted the fearsome Stasi - the Communist regime's secret police - she sets out to investigate the extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany." "Stasiland is a look at courage, conscience and the extremes of what humans will do to one another."--Jacket.

Subject

• Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
• Geschichte 1996-1997
• 1900-1999
• Berlin (Germany) > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "True stories from behind the Berlin Wall"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-286).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Map of Germany 1945-90 ix -- Map of Berlin Wall 1961-89 x -- 1 Berlin, Winter 1996 1 -- 2 Miriam 10 -- 3 Bornholmer Bridge 19 -- 4 Charlie 31 -- 5 The Linoleum Palace 47 -- 6 Stasi HQ 54 -- 7 The Smell of Old Men 67 -- 8 Telephone Calls 76 -- 9 Julia Has No Story 88 -- 10 The Italian Boyfriend 98 -- 11 Major N. 106 -- 12 The Lipsi 118 -- 13 Von Schni 129 -- 14 The Worse You Feel 139 -- 15 Herr Christian 148 -- 16 Socialist Man 155 -- 17 Drawing the Line 168 -- 18 The Plate 177 -- 19 Klaus 184 -- 20 Herr Bock of Golm 195 -- 21 Frau Paul 204 -- 22 The Deal 213 -- 23 Hohenschonhausen 222 -- 24 Herr Bohnsack 235 -- 25 Berlin, Spring 2000 245 -- 26 The Wall 253 -- 27 Puzzlers 262 -- 28 Miriam and Charlie 270.

ISBN

1862075808

OCLC

• 52691152
• SCSB-10634344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library