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Gr 10 Up—Lena Altmann's parents were killed in an explosion at the freight car factory where they worked. Her subsequent nervous breakdown led to a stay in a mental institution, and now she has been taken in by her Communist aunt. Auntie lives and breathes for the Party, and expects Lena to do the same, snagging her niece a cleaning lady's job at the headquarters of the Stasi, East Germany's brutal and mysterious secret police during the 1980s. Little does Auntie know that every night, Lena is sexually abused ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More