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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Nextby: Jana Hensel  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.92 You Save: $4.03 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 11 days
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9781586485597 Edition: Tra ISBN: 1586485598 Label: PublicAffairs Manufacturer: PublicAffairs Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: March 03, 2008 Publisher: PublicAffairs Studio: PublicAffairs Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Jana Hensel was thirteen on the night the Berlin Wall fell. The moment it happened, everyone proclaimed it a Great Historical Event. The Cold War was over! Freedom was at hand! But in all the heady celebration, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a greedy Capitalist future. This had been her life. Suddenly it was gone. In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of a lost generation of East German kids forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. It is a bittersweet story of loss and discovery. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lost in Translation?This memoir was on the bestseller list in Germany for over a year and sold a huge number of copies. Based on this information, I can't help thinking that much of what made this book such a bestseller in Germany was lost in translation. The English version is dull, repetitive, and written very simply as if a young girl was writing it, not a reporter looking back on her childhood. It is filled with many interesting tales I had never heard about East Germany but I would not recommend this particular ... Read More Rating:  - Thank you, Jana, for a wonderful bookThis book is beautiful. Having briefly visited East Berlin in 1959, I was impressed with its cleanliness and dullness in contrast to the chaos, colour, mess and joy of life in West Berlin. Hensel explains the difference with skill and personal example: East Germany, the most successful and prosperous of the Soviet satellites, was a collection of industrious, intelligent and obedient ants. In many ways, her life until the collapse of "The Wall" was marvelous, packed ... Read More Rating:  - After The WallThe book is written as an extended essay. There is very little observation of actual events. The author's account of life in the GDR lacks realism and is really quite shallow. Rating: - Recent return from the former GDRI recently spent 2 1/2 months in the former GDR working at a university. My trip was a great experience and I was really struck by the historical remnants and stories of those that had grown up and moved into the former GDR after the fall of the wall. When the wall fell I was only 9 years old and many of my friends there were in my age range and we had few memories of this time. Jana Hensel's book provided me with an in-depth understanding of what life was like for my friends and their siblings during ... Read More Rating:  - A nice read about life in East Germany.Whereas one of the previous reviewers may not have "gotten" this book, I did. I visited East Germany right after the fall of the wall, and then five years later. What a change there was. Not only could you tell the difference on the outside, but the people changed too. Hensel writes about these changes and how it affected her. Then she relates how it affected the older generations. Hensel is a little flip, but maybe she has a right to be. There were big changes, and the young adapt to change. Older ... Read More 
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