Description

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; soon afterwards both Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a nation where in actuality the headquarters of the key police may become a memorial virtually immediately, and one in fifty East Germans were telling on the countrymen and women, there are certainly a thousand experiences just waiting to escape. Anna Funder tells amazing tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany - she meets Miriam, who as a 16-year-old may have started World-War III, trips the person who painted the point which turned the Berlin Wall and gets drunk with the renowned "Mik Jegger" of the East, once reported by the authorities to his face-to "no further to occur".