{"product_id":"9781862075801","title":"Stasiland: True Stories from behind the Berlin Wall","description":"It's Berlin in the 1990s. A city split for forty years by the Wall is trying to knit itself back together -- a city where former Stasi men and their victims now pass one another in the street, and where, just under the surface, the Nazi past now lies buried. When Anna Funder hears of ordinary people who resisted the fearsome Stasi -- the Communist regime's secret police -- she sets out to investigate the extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. Funder finds Miriam Weber, imprisoned as a teenager after scaling the Berlin Wall, and Frau Paul, who never, ever wanted to be a hero. She visits the regime's cartographer, obsessed to this day with the Wall; she gets drunk with the legendary \"Mik Jegger\" of the east, rock star Klaus Renft, who was once declared by the authorities to \"no longer exist.\" Then she finds former Stasi men, now coping with the end of their world -- men who spied on their families and friends, who irradiated people in order to keep track of them or stole pieces of their underwear to store in jars as \"smell samples.\" A fiercely talented new writer, Funder has a novelist's eye for character and story. Stasiland is a lyrical, at times blackly funny look at courage, conscience and the extremes of what humans will do to one another.  ","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032789827824,"sku":"9781862075801","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781862075801_p0.jpg?v=1763601007","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781862075801","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}