Stasiland - Couverture souple

Funder, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1459662237 ISBN 13 : 9781459662230

Editeur : ReadHowYouWant, 2013

Synopsis

Stasiland Insight Text Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in - depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and structure; a chapter - by - chapter/scene - by - scene analysis; discussion of characters and relationships; highly informative section on themes, issues and concepts; discussion of different interpretations - which has come into most English courses around Australia recently; sample exam questions and answers for students to use for essay writing practise on the text; a comprehensive References list.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'An appealing blend of investigative and reflective reporting, with the narrative drive of powerful human-interest stories. . . . There is no denying Funder's journalistic talents' --.

'The best account of the strange, secretive place on the other side of the wall' --Evening Standard

'Superb... Funder skilfully deploys fictional techniques to make the material jump off the page: crafted scenes with their own story-arcs, naturalistic dialogue, fully-realised characters with their own plotlines. The atmosphere of grey grimness is vividly conveyed: but there are flashes of humour too' ***** --Independent on Sunday

'These are haunting accounts of an Orwellian time through which no one lived through without paying a high personal price' --Herald

'These rigorously researched, tenderly told stories of life inside East Germany won the Samuel Johnson prize a decade ago. It reads as a powerful backward glance of the everyday fears, terrors but also rebellions. Funder illuminates her subjects with humanity and at times, inserts herself into the story of a nation and identity divided, reminding us just how remarkable investigative journalism can be' --Independent

'These encounters with the survivors are the most harrowing and, until this book, almost forgotten' --The Times

Quatrième de couverture

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder’s bestselling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a sixteen-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary “Mik Jegger of the East,” once declared by the authorities—to his face—“no longer to exist.” And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder’s powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ReadHowYouWant
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1459662237
• ISBN 13: 9781459662230
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible