And one bad day the borders were closed. Kirstin, who decided to leave her husband for good to go live with her grandmother who raised her and concentrate on finding her daughter, born from a rape and given up for adoption at birth, finds herself trapped in East Berlin, under the watchful eye of the almighty STASI. Helped by an American journalist who happens to live right next to the wall, but in the western part of the city, the woman tries to come up with new escape plans until the last, most spectacular, succeeds, not without unexpected help.
An excellent story about the suffocating life in East Germany, where anyone could have been a STASI informant: a husband, a neighbour, a girlfriend and even a child; a fitting tribute to all those who did all that was possible and impossible to reunite their sky, divided by an inhuman policy.

This is a great piece of historical fiction that focuses on the building of the Berlin Wall and of Kirsten's desperate desire to get to the other side of it to her grandmother. She gets the assistance of Tony after holding up a Help Me sign from her window. These two strangers embark on an unforgettable journey and the author's writing makes you want to go along for it!

This is an interesting piece of historical fiction. I love history pertaining to World War 2 and spent quite some time in Germany after the wall came down. This story relates to a fictional quest to get a young woman, Kirstin, across the East West divide just as the border is being closed. She lives on the east but her grandmother on the west and her grandmother needs her. As she watches the border being constructed out her apartment window she is spotted by an American writer called Tony. He makes it his mission to help her as they conceive a plan to deceive the authorities and ensure that she is not constricted by this divide. This storyline leads to a take of deception and intrigue as we envision the hardships that those who lived behind the wall endured. The characters weren't explored in much detail but the story was an entertaining one. I enjoyed it al lot.

Miller writes a fantastic tale about the building of the Berlin Wall. It's very realistic and well worth the read. I found the story captivating.