num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
titlecomplete: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
genres: Historical, History, Travel, European History, Germany, German Literature, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 17472
places: Berlin Wall, Germany, Berlin, East Berlin, East Germany
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Granta Books