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100 Must-Reads

DW book expert David Levitz about 'I' by Wolfgang Hilbig

Google, Facebook, the internet: you would think surveillance has never been as easy. Not true. In communist East Germany, almost everyone spied on everyone else, as Wolfgang Hilbig describes in his espionage novel.

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