What a read! Real and difficult on most of the situations, this book is an eye-opening story of how was life during the cold war in Germany.
I’ll say from the beginning that it had been a little difficult to enter to the story, the names and places are in German and it took me a while to get used to the characters been called by their surname! But this doesn’t mean that the story was not great, because it had been interesting and curious to say the least.
This is the story of two women Herr Müller and Irma Behrendt, her life is run by the Stasi (it was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic and it has been described as one of the most effective and repressive agencies ever to have existed). They always have to follow the Stasi commands risking their family lives if they don’t. They are on each side of a coin, Müller is a police officer trying to solve a case; Irma has a new boyfriend with a secret plan… Their lives crossed a few years ago, now they will cross again, but maybe this time none of them will survive…
I don’t like much history books, but in this case I have learned a secret side of the cold war that I wasn’t aware and I loved every page. I’ve read books about the second world war, but the cold war is always shared in the spies perspective, not the civilians and the repression they were living every day. The Stasi seemed to run the life of everyone, their movements and even when they were able to breath, I can understand the need to escape and cross the border, but as the book reminds, the Nazis where everywhere, they are even here, now!
What I can say about Stasi Winter? Only good things, the coldness of the story flows through the reader veins, afraid of the main characters life as the story arrives to the end. I would love to know more about the characters and how they continue on their paths but, at the same time I loved the ending, so I don’t know if I am ready for it! We’ll see if David Young decides to continue with the story…
For now, I can only say tell you to read the “Stasi Winter” before the ice melts down! 😉
I’ll say from the beginning that it had been a little difficult to enter to the story, the names and places are in German and it took me a while to get used to the characters been called by their surname! But this doesn’t mean that the story was not great, because it had been interesting and curious to say the least.
This is the story of two women Herr Müller and Irma Behrendt, her life is run by the Stasi (it was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic and it has been described as one of the most effective and repressive agencies ever to have existed). They always have to follow the Stasi commands risking their family lives if they don’t. They are on each side of a coin, Müller is a police officer trying to solve a case; Irma has a new boyfriend with a secret plan… Their lives crossed a few years ago, now they will cross again, but maybe this time none of them will survive…
I don’t like much history books, but in this case I have learned a secret side of the cold war that I wasn’t aware and I loved every page. I’ve read books about the second world war, but the cold war is always shared in the spies perspective, not the civilians and the repression they were living every day. The Stasi seemed to run the life of everyone, their movements and even when they were able to breath, I can understand the need to escape and cross the border, but as the book reminds, the Nazis where everywhere, they are even here, now!
What I can say about Stasi Winter? Only good things, the coldness of the story flows through the reader veins, afraid of the main characters life as the story arrives to the end. I would love to know more about the characters and how they continue on their paths but, at the same time I loved the ending, so I don’t know if I am ready for it! We’ll see if David Young decides to continue with the story…
For now, I can only say tell you to read the “Stasi Winter” before the ice melts down! 😉