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Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
Anna Funder
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History
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Stasiland unveils the haunting reality of East Germany's surveillance state. Translated into 12 languages across 69 countries, this Samuel Johnson Prize winner captivated Tom Hanks as "fascinating, hilarious, horrifying." What dark secrets did former Stasi agents reveal that sparked legal action in Germany?

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When the Wall Was More Than Concrete

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What does it feel like to grow up in a country where your neighbor might be reporting your breakfast conversations? Where a teenage act of rebellion could cost you your freedom, or loving the wrong person could destroy your future? In 1996, an Australian writer arrived in Berlin with a peculiar obsession-what she called a "horror-romance" with the vanished German Democratic Republic. The romance was for their utopian dream, the horror for what they did in its name. She spent years tracking down ordinary people whose lives had been shattered by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. What emerged wasn't another dry historical account of the Cold War. Instead, it was something far more unsettling: a portrait of how surveillance doesn't just watch you-it rewrites who you are. These aren't stories of famous dissidents or political heroes. They're stories of teenagers, lovers, and parents who made impossible choices in a society where privacy was a crime and trust was a luxury no one could afford.

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