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Stasiland
from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I Am
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The definitive account of tyranny and resistance as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series. Extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. Funder meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at...
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The definitive account of tyranny and resistance as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.
Extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. Funder meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixteen, and Frau Paul, for whom the Berlin Wall 'went through my heart'. She drinks with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the East, once declared by the authorities to 'no longer exist'. And she meets ex-Stasi—men who spied on their families and friends—still loyal to the deposed regime as they await the next revolution.
Stasiland is a brilliant, timeless portrait of a Kafkaesque world as gripping as any thriller. In a world of total surveillance, its celebration of human conscience and courage is as potent as ever.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761620591
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 July 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Anna Funder is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am and Wifedom - each book an international bestseller, published in many countries - and the novella The Girl with the Dogs. Her books have won multiple literary awards, including the UK's premier award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize, for Stasiland; Australia's most prestigious, the Miles Franklin, for her novel All That I Am; and the renowned French prize the Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger, for Wifedom. Originally trained as an international human rights lawyer, Anna has lived in Melbourne, Paris, Berlin and New York City. She now lives with her family in Sydney. annafunder.com
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