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For decades, the name Christiane F. has been synonymous with one of the most brutal, unflinching accounts of drug addiction ever published. Her first book, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children of Zoo Station), became a global sensation in 1979. It painted a devastating portrait of a 13-year-old girl prostituting herself in West Berlin to afford heroin.
While her first book was a frantic, "no-holds-barred" look at teenage heroin addiction, My Second Life
The search for Christiane F. My Second Life Book English is worth the effort. It is neither a cash-grab sequel nor a moralistic lecture. It is a quiet masterpiece of late-life memoir, proving that some stories do not end in a graveyard, but on a quiet Greek beach.
If you are looking for the story itself, the autobiography (co-authored with Sonja Vukovic) details:
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