All That I Am by Anna Funder
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, great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London.
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 *
The strengths of Funder's writing are emotional and imaginative. In what she has to say about love, loss and betrayal there is profound truth * The Times *
Dora is the most attractive fictional heroine in a long time ... a gripping story of love and betrayal * New Statesman *
A seamless and powerful tale ... of individual endeavour and survival that examines universal human themes * Independent on Sunday *
A remarkable story told with clarity and precision * Guardian *
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 *
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 *
Anna Funder proved herself a first-rate reporter with Stasiland - now she appears as a compelling novelist in a dark story of German emigres in the 1930s, struggling to warn the indifferent English against the Nazis -- Claire Tomalin
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 -- Ruth Scurr * TLS *
A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it * Spectator *
The strengths of Funder's writing are emotional and imaginative. In what she has to say about love, loss and betrayal there is profound truth * The Times *
Dora is the most attractive fictional heroine in a long time ... a gripping story of love and betrayal * New Statesman *
A seamless and powerful tale ... of individual endeavour and survival that examines universal human themes * Independent on Sunday *
A remarkable story told with clarity and precision * Guardian *
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 *
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 *
Anna Funder proved herself a first-rate reporter with Stasiland - now she appears as a compelling novelist in a dark story of German emigres in the 1930s, struggling to warn the indifferent English against the Nazis -- Claire Tomalin
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 -- Ruth Scurr * TLS *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670920426 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670920428 |
| Title | All That I Am |
| Author | Anna Funder |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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