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Sektion 20 (2012)

by Paul Dowswell(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1408808633 (ISBN13: 9781408808634)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

review 1: I started this book with low expectations because of the topic but still managed to disappoint me. The topic and the setting could have been great or even amazing but this book is just boring. I did not finish it. I had the feeling I was reading a bunch of information on how life was in DDR. The characters have no dept and every action or even word in the novel seems to be there just for the purpose of allowing the author to show he did research the time period. Yes, we get it. But I don't want to read a historian book. Maybe the book would have been better if I kept to read it, but I could not dare it. Of course, I do not suggest it and it's such a pity this novel is not good since there are not many books about life under the Stasi and the division of Germany, especially... more targeted at a young adults audience.
review 2: Alex lives in East Berlin. The cold war is raging and he and his family are forbidden to leave. But the longer he stays, the more danger he is in. Alex is no longer pretending to be a model East German, and the Stasi has noticed. They are watching him.Alex is told that further education will be blocked to him. His summer job is mysteriously cancelled, and friends begin avoiding him. His parents start to realize that leaving the East may be the only option left to them, but getting across the Wall is practically impossible. And even if Alex and his family make it to the other side, will they be able to escape the reach of the Stasi? less

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