Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

by Anna Funder

‘Capitalism plunders the planet too—this hole in the ozone layer, the exploitation of the forests, pollution—we must get rid of this social system! Otherwise the human race will not last the next fifty years!’

‘You know though, it was worth it. All the courage I had is in that plate. The whole shitty little skerrick of it. That’s all I had. That plate,’ he says pointing behind him, ‘stays there.’