Stasiland

<p><strong><em>Stasiland</em> demonstrates that great original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking beautifully written book. A classic. -- Claire Tomalin <em>Guardian</em> Books of the Year</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: a powerfully moving account of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany and of people who worked for its secret police the Stasi.</strong></p><p>Anna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain--and especially of life under the iron fist of the Stasi East Germany's brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor's <em>The Berlin Wall </em>and Philip Gourevitch's <em>We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families</em> Funder's <em>Stasiland </em>is a masterpiece of investigative reporting written with novelistic vividness and the compelling intensity of a universal real-life story.</p>