![]() ![]() ![]() Taking a flat in East Berlin, she talked to both watchers and the watched, and visited the buildings of the GDR apparatus some of which have been turned into museums. Funder is an Australian journalist who learned German liking ‘the sticklebrick nature of it.’ She went on to study and live in West Berlin in the 1980s where she ‘wondered long and hard what went on behind that Wall.’ She returned in the 1990s to investigate the ‘ horror-romance‘ of the GDR, and what remained of it. Stasiland by Anna Funder is a work of investigative journalism, chronicling the lives of some people who lived in the GDR before the Berlin Wall came down. ![]() Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna FunderĪfter the racy delights of Jilly Cooper’s Riders last month, we went for something completely different for our February read. ![]()
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