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A review by the_sunken_library
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
5.0
Stunning, haunting, the beautiful prose of this book is totally juxtaposed to the harrowing stories collected and reformed by Anna Funder as she traverses the past to reveal the truths and lies of the GDR, before and after the wall.
This is a sneak peak into a world most of us have never and will never experience. A bizarre time where you believed the lies as truths or went mad trapped in a country/city you were forbidden to leave.
This is not by any means exhaustive. Funder does not seek to explain or nail down the causes and effects of Communism in Berlin and other Russian States after the Second World War. This is simply a window into a jumble of memories and the beliefs of some of the individuals living through what was essentially a grand social experiment.
This is a sneak peak into a world most of us have never and will never experience. A bizarre time where you believed the lies as truths or went mad trapped in a country/city you were forbidden to leave.
This is not by any means exhaustive. Funder does not seek to explain or nail down the causes and effects of Communism in Berlin and other Russian States after the Second World War. This is simply a window into a jumble of memories and the beliefs of some of the individuals living through what was essentially a grand social experiment.