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Forty Autumns de Nina Willner

Forty Autumns

Autor Nina Willner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2017

O tânără de douăzeci de ani fuge prin noapte, lăsând în urmă tot ce iubește pentru o libertate care vine cu prețul unei tăceri de patru decenii. Apreciem în Forty Autumns o dramatizare istorică de o intensitate rară, care transformă o experiență personală într-o cronică a rezilienței umane. Nina Willner nu scrie doar din perspectiva cercetătorului, ci folosește propria experiență de primă femeie ofițer de informații în Berlinul de Est pentru a cartografia durerea unei familii scindate de ideologie. Stilul narativ este unul cinematic, pendulând între operațiunile de spionaj riscante ale autoarei și viața cotidiană marcată de privațiuni a rudelor sale rămase în Est. Ca și A Night Divided de Jennifer A Nielsen, această biografie transformă documentele și amintirile într-o narațiune vie despre supraviețuire sub supravegherea constantă a statului. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Willner umanizează Războiul Rece, trecând dincolo de cifre și strategii politice pentru a ne arăta cum s-a simțit istoria pe propria piele. Dacă în The Boys in the Light autoarea explora triumful spiritului în fața ororilor naziste, aici ea continuă tema luptei împotriva opresiunii, mutând reflectorul asupra regimului comunist. Documentarea este impecabilă, susținută de fotografii de arhivă, iar ritmul amintește de tensiunea din Tunnel 29 de Helena Merriman, păstrând totodată o notă intimă, de confesiune familială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062410320
ISBN-10: 0062410326
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

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Recomandăm această carte celor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea trăită în spatele Cortinei de Fier, dincolo de manualele de istorie. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică, dublă: cea a unui ofițer de informații american și cea a unei familii germane obișnuite. Este o lectură esențială despre curajul feminin și despre legăturile de sânge care pot supraviețui celor mai dure bariere politice construite vreodată.

Despre autor

Nina Willner este o fostă ofițeră de informații a armatei americane, cunoscută pentru activitatea sa în Berlin în perioada de vârf a Războiului Rece. După cariera militară, s-a dedicat promovării drepturilor omului și statului de drept în orașe precum Moscova, Praga și Minsk, colaborând cu organizații guvernamentale și caritabile. Forty Autumns reprezintă debutul său editorial, o lucrare în care își folosește expertiza profesională pentru a recompune istoria fragmentată a propriei familii. În prezent, locuiește în Istanbul, continuând să scrie despre teme legate de libertate și supraviețuire.

Descriere scurtă

In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom—leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home—was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own.
Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna’s daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army Intelligence Officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives—grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team—a bitter political war kept them apart.
In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family’s story—five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk.
A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love—of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family.
Forty Autumns is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs.

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Growing up in a provincial village outside of Berlin, Hanna was encouraged by her schoolteacher father to follow her dreams. But at the end of World War II, the Soviets took control of the eastern part of Germany and established a repressive communist state—East Germany—which used brutal force and a massive wall to cut off East from West.
Determined to live free, Hanna made a dangerous escape to West Germany. But the price of freedom—leaving behind her parents, her eight siblings, and her home—was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army officer, and had children of her own, but she never forgot her parents and siblings trapped on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna’s daughter, Nina Willner, became the first female U.S. Army intelligence officer to lead sensitive intelligence collection operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though separated by only a few miles, American Nina and her German relatives were kept apart, leaving a family divided for more than four decades by a bitter political war.
Nina takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under communist rule, revealing both the harsh reality her relatives endured and her experiences as an intelligence officer running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk.

Recenzii

“An excellent and intriguing account of the impact of the Cold War on families and their lives on either side of the Berlin Wall.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Willner’s epic memoir traverses three generations of mothers, recounting the tragedy, estrangement, and overwhelming courage of a family torn apart…. Her interrogative and unabashed voice explores the painful intersection of national duty and familial responsibilities…. A thrilling and relevant read for historians and casual readers alike.” — Publishers Weekly
Thoughtful and informative, Willner’s book not only offers a personal view of the traumatic effects of German partition. It also celebrates the enduring resilience of the human spirit. A poignant and engrossing, occasionally harrowing, family memoir.” — Kirkus Reviews
[A] moving account of one family’s life under tyranny… Willner’s sensitive and well-written account causes us to reflect on what is really important to us and how we would react in a similar situation.” — BookPage
“This book is kind, honest, incredibly well-written, and important, a testament to humanity and courage.” — LitHub
“[A] meticulous and compassionate family memoir… Charting the twists and turns of politics in communist East Germany over more than four decades, it shows how currents of repression and reform affected individual lives.” — Chicago Tribune
“Forty Autumns is both an informative and timely read. In this increasingly tumultuous modern era when borders, both theoretical and physical, have once again become the front lines of critical issues such as immigration reform, pervasive prejudice and terrorism, stories like Willner’s are especially important.” — BookReporter
“Even if you well know the story of the East German sequester, you will be drawn to [Willner’s] family story of living through the worst of times.” — Manhattan Book Review
“A poignant parable of hope and, at times, a harrowing ghost story.” — Christian Science Monitor

Notă biografică

Nina Willner is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who served in Berlin during the Cold War. Following a career in intelligence, Nina worked in Moscow, Minsk, and Prague promoting human rights, children's causes, and the rule of law for the U.S. government, nonprofit organizations, and a variety of charities. She currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. Forty Autumns is her first book.

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In Forty Autumns, Nina Willner recounts the history of three generations of her family - mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins - separated by forty years of Soviet rule, and reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, as the Soviets took control of the eastern part of Germany, Hanna, a schoolteacher's daughter, escaped with nothing more than a small suitcase and the clothes on her back. As Hanna built a new life in the West, her relatives (her mother, father and eight siblings) remained in the East. The construction of the Berlin Wall severed all hope of any future reunion.
Hanna fell in love and moved to America. She made many attempts to establish contact with her family, but most were unsuccessful. Her father was under close observation; her mother, younger sister Heidi and the others struggled to adjust to life under a bizarre and brutal regime that kept its citizens cut off from the outside world.
A few years later, Hanna had a daughter - Nina - who grew up to become the first female US Army intelligence officer to lead sensitive intelligence collection operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. At the same time, Heidi's daughter, Cordula, was training to become a member of the East German Olympic cycling team. Though separated by only a few miles, Nina and her relatives led entirely different lives.
Once the Berlin Wall came down, and the families were reunited, Nina Willner discovered an extraordinary story. In Forty Autumns she vividly brings to life many accounts of courage and survival, set against the backdrop of four decades that divided a nation and the world.