City of Angels, or, The overcoat of Dr. Freud: a novel

✍ Scribed by Christa Wolf

• Book ID: 100274973
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus Giroux, Melia [distributor]
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 252 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429942789

✦ Synopsis

The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer

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Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar --and disturbing--story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it.

Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and...