Stasiland

&;Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.&; &; Claire Tomalin, Guardian &;Books of the Year&;

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.

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 The Berlin Wall and Philip Gourevitch&;s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder&;s Stasiland is a masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness and the compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.