All That I Am
The tense and moving WW2 love story from the author of Stasiland and Wifedom
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2011
384 pages
978-0-670-92041-9 (ISBN)
Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOM
A powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today's political climate.
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country.
Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret.
But England is not the safe haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart . . .
'Spellbinding . . . there are echoes of the best espionage tales' Sunday Telegraph
'A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it' Spectator
'A story of courage and betrayal . . . she has captured the atmosphere of what it must have been like to have been at the centre of the left-wing movement in post-war Germany' Evening Standard
A powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today's political climate.
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country.
Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret.
But England is not the safe haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart . . .
'Spellbinding . . . there are echoes of the best espionage tales' Sunday Telegraph
'A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it' Spectator
'A story of courage and betrayal . . . she has captured the atmosphere of what it must have been like to have been at the centre of the left-wing movement in post-war Germany' Evening Standard
Reviews / Votes
A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it * Spectator * Spellbinding ... there are echoes of the best espionage tales * Sunday Telegraph * The subtlety of Anna Funder's novel is in the elegance of her precise prose, and in her painstaking portrait of an ordinary woman swept up in extraordinary events ... The result is a strong and impressively humane novel * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-670-92041-9 (9780670920419)
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Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland and All That I Am. In 2004 Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize and, along with All That I Am, has been published in twenty-six countries. All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Award, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It was also chosen as a BBC Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime.
Anna was originally trained as an international human rights lawyer. She lives in Sydney.
Anna was originally trained as an international human rights lawyer. She lives in Sydney.
