East Germany


Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
Kairos
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
Siblings
The East German Handbook: Arts and Artifacts from the GDR / Das DDR Handbuch: Kunst und Alltagsgegenstände aus der DDR
Stasi Child (Karin Müller, #1)
Born in the GDR: Life in the Shadow of the Wall
After the Wall
The Shadow of His Past by Nickie CochranThe Tango Player by Christoph HeinThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonOder Florida by Christian BangelThe Wall Between by Jesper Bugge Kold
Novels set in the GDR
15 books — 6 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréSmiley's People by John le CarréThe Looking Glass War by John le CarréGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The Best Cold War Novels
45 books — 50 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
392 books — 139 voters


Anna Funder
“ You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel. ”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder
“ Ci sono persone che si sentono a loro agio a parlare della propria vita, come se riuscissero a ricavare un senso dalla successione di eventi casuali che le hanno rese quel che sono. Questo comporta una sorta di fede preveggente nella vita; la convinzione che causa ed effetto siano legati, e che essi stessi siano qualcosa di più della semplice somma del loro passato. ”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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