City of angels or, : The overcoat of Dr. Freud / Christa Wolf ; translated from the German by Damion Searls.
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. She was not surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whos contents...
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| Other title: | Stadt der Engel, oder, The overcoat of Dr. Freud. English. Overcoat of Dr. Freud. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
c2013.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. She was not surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whos contents told an unfamiliar story: in the early 1960s, Wolf had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |