A review by samchase112
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Stasiland is a horrifying and detailed account of what it was like to live under Stasi power in East Germany. Anna Funder's clear, reflective writing only adds to the horror of what she is uncovering. It reads like fiction, which makes the fact that these things were real, that it was done to real people, even more difficult to read. What would you have done? How would you have reacted when the Stasi threatened to imprison you for life if you didn't convert your child to an ideology and regime that was oppressing you? Funder's novel is explanatory and reflective, and makes readers question their own perspectives and how they would react under oppression. I highly recommend it.
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