All that i am anna funder

Read all that i am a novel by anna funder available from rakuten kobo. Anna funders all that i am is about as safely a novel as stasiland was a history, and it takes some mental readjustment when you realise the incredible dramas and intrigues it traces are. All that i am winner of the miles franklin prize, the barbara jefferis prize, the indie best debut fiction, the indie book of the year 2012, the abia best literary fiction, the abia book of the year 2012 and the. It follows characters affected by the nazi regime in prewar germany and britain the book was first published in 2011 by penguin books. All that i am by anna funder 9780143567516 dymocks. Awardwinning author anna funder delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel about a group of young german exiles who risk their lives to awaken the world to the terrifying threat of hitler and nazi germany.

Based on the stories of real people and events, anna funders. Stasiland, anna funder s 2004 samuel johnson prizewinner, was a collection of accounts of life in the former east germany as related by both victims and perpetrators of the regime. Every three months when we respectfully begged his majesty the king of england to be allowed to stay, our minds flooded with the things we could not mention in our polite visa application. All that i am proved perfect for reading by the campfire at night. In this episode of off the page, carol george talks to anna funder, author of stasiland about her new novel all that i am. Anna funders story of dissidents in nazi era germany deals with themes of freedom and betrayal. All that i am book club notes share this based on the stories of real people and events, anna funder s all that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs. All that i am is australian novelist anna funders first fictional work.

Having visited berlin in 1987 and 1995, her book on the east germany secret police before and after the wall piqued my interest. In her debut novel, the australian writer anna funder weaves together fact and fiction to produce a compelling and moving portrait of the struggle against nazi oppression. In 2012 the miles franklin award went to anna funders all that i am. I will deliver selected goodness no more than once a month. Funders title, all that i am, echoes tollers autobiography, i was a german, and primo levis account of his imprisonment in auschwitz, if this is a man. Buy all that i am by anna funder, paperback format, from the dymocks online bookstore. Her debut novel, all that i am, has won many prizes, including the prestigious miles franklin literary award. May 30, 2016 all that i am book club notes share this based on the stories of real people and events, anna funders all that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. Ben etherington examines the critical responses to anna funders all that i am. Based on reallife events and people, all that i am brings to light the heroic. These are the words of ruth blatt, one of two narrators in anna funders first novel, the followup to her. When hitler seizes power in 1933, a tightknit group of friends and lovers suddenly becomes hunted outlaws overnight.

One september morning, elderly ruth wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. She has worked as an international lawyer specializing in human rights and constitutional law. She is the author of stasiland and all that i am and the novella the girl with the dogs life. All that i am, by anna funder anz litlovers litblog. About this title may belong to another edition of this title.

Set against the backdrop of the rise of hitler and outbreak of world war ii, all that i am follows the lives of four leftwing german activists as they work to oppose nazism. When hitler comes to power in 1933, a tightknit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. Sep 03, 2011 funder s title, all that i am, echoes tollers autobiography, i was a german, and primo levis account of his imprisonment in auschwitz, if this is a man. The first thing i did after finishing anna funder s debut novel all that i am was to order a copy of ernst tollers autobiography i was a german. Stories from behind the berlin wall, which has been published in twenty countries and translated into sixteen languages. It is a novel that transcends decades, continents and viewpoints. All that i am book club notes penguin books australia. Ruth becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in sydney. We meet him holed up in a new york hotel in 1939, increasingly despairing of shaking the united states out of its apathy about the nazi threat.

Anna funder s all that i am is a work that is inspired by fact and is drawn from interviews and published works of the lives of a group of jewish germans who actively resisted the rise of adolf as an author of nonfiction, it is frustrating when my work is compared unfavourably with a work of fiction on the same subject. Anna funder s international bestseller, stasiland, won the samuel johnson prize for nonfiction. Ernst toller, the leftwing activist playwright is discussing with w. What stopped me buying it was the fact that i thought it was another sad. It was the first book to reveal the true horrors perpetrated by. Anna funder is the author of the internationally acclaimed prizewinner stasiland, and the no. Toller features as a character in funder s much anticipated book. It won the miles franklin prize, spent over one and a half years on the bestseller list, and is being made into a. Toller and latts narratives are written in a retrospective stream of consciousness toller in new york in i o i o, remembering the events of the i is and is. From anna funder, the author of stasiland, a thriller and a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the german resistance.

It is the authors first novel, but her name had been established by the nonfiction hit stasiland 2003. Jul 22, 2019 all that i am proved perfect for reading by the campfire at night. May 28, 2012 blatt transformed by novelist anna funder in her novel, all that i am, into a character called ruth wesemann becker is at the centre of this remarkable story of love and betrayal. It was released february 2012 in the usa and italy and other countries around the world to follow. Awardwinning author anna funder delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel about a group of young germ. May 10, 2012 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. 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 tightknit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. History, like hope, is not something to be solved, but to be carried. All that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and. Several years after stasiland, funder returned with her second book, and first foray into fiction.

She studied at the university of melbourne and the freie universitat of berlin, and. Awardwinning author anna funder delivers an affecting and. I highly recommend anna funders book wherever you read it. The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of anna funder s all that i am, a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the german resistance. She allows exstasi operatives an equal chance to reflect on. All that i am by anna funder when eighteenyearold ruth becker visits her cousin dora in munich in 1923, she meets the love of her life, the dashing young journalist hans wesemann, and eagerly joins in the heady activities of the militant political left in germany. Her first book, the nonfiction stasiland, was groundbreaking in both form and content. Anna funder is one of australias most acclaimed and celebrated writers. And for sneaking off for a quiet read beside a creek towards the end of my campervan holiday.

She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, its 1939 and the world is going to war. It follows characters affected by the nazi regime in prewar germany and britain. All that i am by anna funder london evening standard. Kasia boddy is a senior lecturer in english at university college london. I highly recommend anna funder s book wherever you read it.

As the winner of many australian literary awards, including the prestigious miles franklin award, i knew this was a book that had impressed the critics. Anna funder has written an essential novel about how we carry the bricks of. She is the author of stasiland and all that i am and the novella the girl with the dogs. In 2012 the miles franklin award went to anna funder s all that i am.

Anna funder s all that i am is a multiperson account of hitlers coming to power in germany 1933. All that i am is a novel that questions the ubiquity of the human conscience, yet it insists on. Anna funder, as one of her characters in her debut novel all that i am, makes a cunning observation about authors using people that they know in their writing. 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. Funder went to primary school in melbourne and paris. Anna funder lives in brooklyn, new york, with her husband and children. All that i am by anna funder penguin books australia. Anna funder s story of dissidents in naziera germany deals with themes of freedom and betrayal rachel cusk fri 16 sep 2011 17. Anna funders story of dissidents in naziera germany deals with themes of freedom and betrayal. Based on true events, all that i am is testament to some of the earliest now forgotten heroes of the resistance to hitler. Blatt transformed by novelist anna funder in her novel, all that i am, into a character called ruth wesemann becker is at the centre of this remarkable story of love and betrayal. Anna funder is the author of internationally acclaimed stasiland and the bestselling novel all that i am, which has been longlisted for the 2012 miles franklin award.

May 03, 2018 all that i am is anna funder s debut novel. Sep 16, 2011 anna funder s story of dissidents in naziera germany deals with themes of freedom and betrayal rachel cusk fri 16 sep 2011 17. Anna funders all that i am is a work that is inspired by fact and is drawn from interviews and published works of the lives of a group of jewish germans who actively resisted the rise of adolf as an author of nonfiction, it is frustrating when my work is compared unfavourably with a work of fiction on the same subject. Audenthe poet his reluctance to write about dora fabian in his autobiography. May 02, 20 anna funder s all that i am has become the most awarded australian novel of the year. Sep 01, 2011 from anna funder, the author of stasiland, a thriller and a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the german resistance. A nna funders first book, stasiland, was a work of great originality and interest. Her multiaward winning novel all that i am was an homage to four extraordinary german antihitler activists in exile in london in the 1930s. An account of life in the former german democratic republic, it sought to delineate individual and national. One september morning, elderly ruth wesemann wakes to the sound of a. In this evening of intimacies and revelations, anna tells facilita. 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.

Funder s title, all that i am, echoes tollers autobiography, i was a german, and primo levis account of his imprisonment in auschwitz, if this is a man. Her multiaward winning novel all that i am was an homage to four. It won the miles franklin prize, spent over one and a half years on the bestseller list, and is being made into a feature film. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the. All that i am is australian novelist anna funder s first fictional work. Anna funder explores, in the most humane and sensitive way, lives blighted by the east german stasi. To have claimed a prize of such stature would suggest that the novel had weathered a robust critical reception. Anna funder is an australian writer who grew up in melbourne. Aug 29, 2011 anna funder s all that i am is a work that is inspired by fact and is drawn from interviews and published works of the lives of a group of jewish germans who actively resisted the rise of adolf as an author of nonfiction, it is frustrating when my work is compared unfavourably with a work of fiction on the same subject. All that i am was published to critical and popular acclaim in the uk where it was both bbc book of the week and book at bedtime and australia where it has spent nine months on the bestseller list, twice at no. Anna funders all that i am is a multiperson account of hitlers coming to power in germany 1933.