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. 『監視国家ー東ドイツ秘密警察(シュタージ)に引き裂かれた絆』（白水社）として邦訳が出版。2004年英国の優れたノンフィクション作品に授与されるサミュエル・ジョンソン賞受賞。2003年出版を大手出版社から再発。