Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible.
In thetradition of Frederick Taylor\'s The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch\'s WeWish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families , Funder\'s Stasiland isa masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness andthe compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.. --Claire Tomalin, Guardian Books ofthe Year AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany\'s communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life Behind the Iron Curtain--and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany\'s brutal state security force.
Aclassic.
A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. . . .
Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible
