After the Wall

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"Marc Fisher's After the Wall is a triumph of literary journalism. The particulars that Fisher gathers-the traumas of the past, the ethnic conflicts of today, the strangeness of Germany's law and folkways-lead to a fascinating portrait of a troubled nation. After the Wall is the essential book in understanding the most powerful country in Europe and its people." -Dávid Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb "A vivid, illuminating account of Germany's struggles to cope with its newfound unity. Against the background of history, politics and economics, it presents the story in the humán terms of the people who lived the upheavals, shame and achievements of Germany. Fisher has found the tangled feelings behind the stolid front." -Flóra Lewis, author of Europe "Through these deft and powerful portraits, Marc Fisher unveils the troubled heart of a nation with a wall down the center of its soul." -Ronalo Steel, author of Waltér Lippmann and the American Century "Marc Fisher has accomplished a... Tovább

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"Marc Fisher's After the Wall is a triumph of literary journalism. The particulars that Fisher gathers-the traumas of the past, the ethnic conflicts of today, the strangeness of Germany's law and folkways-lead to a fascinating portrait of a troubled nation. After the Wall is the essential book in understanding the most powerful country in Europe and its people." -Dávid Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb "A vivid, illuminating account of Germany's struggles to cope with its newfound unity. Against the background of history, politics and economics, it presents the story in the humán terms of the people who lived the upheavals, shame and achievements of Germany. Fisher has found the tangled feelings behind the stolid front." -Flóra Lewis, author of Europe "Through these deft and powerful portraits, Marc Fisher unveils the troubled heart of a nation with a wall down the center of its soul." -Ronalo Steel, author of Waltér Lippmann and the American Century "Marc Fisher has accomplished a delicate feat: he has become intimate with Germans and captured the feel of their life today as they struggle with their terrible past." - Peter Wydf.n, author of Wall "In After the Wall, Fisher picks up where the public consciousness was left when the média lost interest in Germany. Fisher shows us the challenging path ahead before the Germán question has an answer-or until it no longer needs to be asked." -Daniéi. Burstein, author of Yen! "Marc Fisher brilliantly illuminates the soul of modern Germany, reunited and powerful but with a terrible blank spot in the national memorv- a people, as he writes, who know what they do not want to be, but haven't vet figured out what they are." -wllliam GREIDER, author of who wlll Tell the people Vissza