Publisher's Synopsis
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Christa Wolf began to sort through her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance, Wolf was not surprised to find 42 volumes of documents collected by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar - and disturbing - story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, 40 years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. This extraordinary autobiographical novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery.
