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|title=Sektion 20

|author=Paul Dowswell

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|pages=288

|publisher=Bloomsbury

|date=September 2011

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It's the early 1970s and Alex is living with his family in East Berlin. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time is spent at school listening to endless lectures on the superiority of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinks, even when he's with his family and closest friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come to the attention of the Stasi, the state security service.

Don't miss Paul Dowswell's brilliant book [[Auslander by Paul Dowswell|Auslander]] about a Polish orphan taken in by a Nazi family because of his Aryan appearance. [[The Road of Bones by Anne Fine]] is another brilliantly-told story of life under an authoritarian regime.