{"product_id":"9781429942782","title":"City of Angels: or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud \/ A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it.\u003cbr\u003e     Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, \u003ci\u003eCity of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited.\u003cbr\u003e     Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of \u003ci\u003eStar Trek \u003c\/i\u003elate at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, \u003ci\u003eCity of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141844680944,"sku":"9781429942782","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429942782_p0.jpg?v=1769902508","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429942782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}