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Stasiland

By: Anna Funder
Narrated by: Denica Fairman
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About this listen

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 best-selling 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.

©2002 Anna Funder (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing 20th Century Europe Germany Modern

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"Funder is a superb interviewer...she truly excels in the rendering of her sessions with former Stasi employees." (Sunday Times)
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Wow sounds like it was a difficult place to live thanks for the book lads

Very interesting

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I just wanted to keep listening. Some truly horrific accounts of a regime turning in on itself and taking its people with it. Well worth a listen. Overall, I liked the narration, despite a few quirks here and there.

Compelling

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very well written, really gives you the sense of how bad was for the people to be living those awful years. it's so important to keep listening, it's the only was not to repeat it again. well done Anna fabulous work amazing job

fabulous really one of my favorite books

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...as she's rather too "actorly". Some of the direct speech quotes are excruciating. That said, the lives told in this book, and the history of East Germany, are fascinating. I shall try and finish listening to it but this book for me would have been better read than listened to. Tbh if I could have returned it, I would have, and then read the book.

struggling to listen to the narrator...

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fascinating take on life for the victims of the Stasi and stasi operatives and officers in the near aftermath of the DDR.

One flaw, please get the narrator a glass of water, and then edit out the bits of her clearing her mouth! i don’t want to listen ti drymouth.

fascinating take on a moment in history

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