All That I Am - Softcover

Funder, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670920401 ISBN 13: 9780670920402

Publisher: Viking, 2011

Synopsis

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am.

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...

'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

'An often pacy and exciting read ... Funder captures perfectly the sense of her characters' deprived and dangerous lives' Daily Mail

'A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it' Spectator

Anna Funder is the author of the international bestseller Stasiland, which won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize and was published in 20 countries and translated into 16 languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and a former DAAD and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. Anna Funder grew up in Melbourne and Paris and lives in Sydney with her husband and family.

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Review:

"Funder writes with grace and conviction about the intrusion of the political on the domestic and the thrill of falling in love over a cause."--New York Times Book Review

"In ALL THAT I AM, Anna Funder delivers a sweeping first novel that covers love and war, friendship and betrayal, and the bonds that define a life. It is a moving and ambitious work."--Ann Patchett

"A literary work as suspenseful as the best thrillers, Funder's extraordinary first novel is an unflinching portrait of courage in devastating circumstances."--Library Journal

"Like Hillary Mantel's brilliant WOLF HALL, Funder's new book is not just a novel or thriller, and is also far more than mere history."--Betsey Burton, The King's English Bookshop

"A spiraling account of political activity and love...this beautiful tapestry of friendship and loyalty during one of history's darker times will appeal to fans of novels about WWII."--Library Journal

"Absorbing debut novel...[Funder] adds an integral perspective on a shopworn subject by invoking the lives of Nazi dissidents whose attempts to alert the world to the growing menace were ignored until it was too late."--Publishers Weekly

"History, like hope, is not something to be solved, but to be carried. Anna Funder has written an essential novel about how we carry the bricks of history on our backs..."--Colum McCann

"[An] enthralling historical novel."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"A bravura piece of storytelling-perfectly plotted, exactingly described...Funder has taken the raw material of truth and from it created a novel of real power and beauty."--Daily Telegraph (London)

"A remarkable story told with clarity and precision, along with moments of insight and literary grace."--Rachel Cusk, The Guardian

From the Back Cover:

When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth's journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts deep inside the Nazi regime, they take breathtaking risks to warn the world of Hitler's plans for war. But England is not the safe haven they think it will be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart....

Based on true events, All That I Am is testament to some of the earliest--now forgotten--heroes of the resistance to Hitler.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670920401
• ISBN 13: 9780670920402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384