At LitHub she tagged seven top books about and from East Germany, including:
Anna Funder, StasilandRead about another entry on the list.
Funder’s Stasiland is an anomaly on this list, written by an Australian who lived in West Berlin in the 1990s. Still, being a secondhand witness to history is a role that more of us will face as the fall of the Berlin Wall passes into its 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries. Funder’s history captures a rare moment in time during which one could experience both East and West before they became a unified whole. Her interviews with Stasi victims and former operatives creates what The Monthly best described as “Alice in a totalitarian Wonderland.”
Stasiland is among Hester Vaizey's five top books on modern Germany history and Steve Kettmann's ten best books on Germans and Germany.
--Marshal Zeringue
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