Anna funder, winner of the samuel johnson prize and author of stasiland, offers an exciting and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic story of the true story of german resistance in world war ii in all that i am. I am a fortyfour yearold africanamerican woman teacher, poet, painter, and sculptor a graduate of the pratt institute and the first member of my family to graduate. 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. Her debut novel, all that i am, has won many prizes, including the prestigious miles franklin literary award. Anna funder s exquisitely written novel, all that i am, about german jewish refugees trying to raise the alarm about hitler to a maddeningly unreceptive britain in the early 30s, resonates with particular intensity during the current coronavirus scare, which is all the more frightening for there being no safe harbor from the virus reach. All that i am is a fictionalisation of the lives of ruth wesemann and ernst toller, dissident germans who fled soon after the nazis came to power. Her first book, the nonfiction stasiland, was groundbreaking in both form and content. Big redback, chick lit, fiction, liar bird, lisa walker, northern rivers writers centre, sex, shopping, workshop, writing. She allows exstasi operatives an equal chance to reflect on. In stasiland, winner of the 2004 samuel johnson prize, anna funder tells extraordinary tales. The first edition of the novel was published in 2003, and was written by anna funder. There, they continued the dangerous and illegal work of smuggling documents out of goerings office, and giving them to winston churchill a backbencher at the time to try to alert the world to hitlers plans for war.
She has worked as an international lawyer and a radio and television producer. All that i am by funder, anna 9780062077585 for sale online. Writing fiction that sells on the 17 th of march in byron bay. This acclaimed book by anna funder is available at in several formats for your ereader. All that i am by anna funder penguin books australia. When hitler seizes power in 1933, a tightknit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Anna funder s stasiland download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. If you are interested, contact the northern rivers writers centre. History, like hope, is not something to be solved, but to be carried. All that i am proved perfect for reading by the campfire at night. It was released february 2012 in the usa and italy and other countries around the world to follow.
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. Read online or download all that i am or find more pdf epub kindle books of the same genre or category. Anna funder 1966 in melbourne ist eine australische schriftstellerin, dokumentarfilmerin. When hitler comes to power in 1933, a tightknit group of friends and lovers. There are echoes of the best espionage tales sunday telegraph uk. About this title may belong to another edition of this title. All that i am by anna funder, 9780062077578, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. It was the first book to reveal the true horrors perpetrated by.
Anna funder grew up in melbourne and paris and lives in sydney together with her husband and household. Based on real people and events, all that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices. It is the authors first novel, but her name had been established by the nonfiction hit stasiland 2003. Anna funder is one of australias most acclaimed and celebrated writers. 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. Anna funder lives in brooklyn, new york, with her husband and children. Anna funders international bestseller, stasiland, won the samuel johnson prize for nonfiction. The main characters of this non fiction, history story are. Download all that i am ebook in epub, mobi and pdf format. To have claimed a prize of such stature would suggest that the novel had weathered a robust critical reception. Anna funder, winner of the samuel johnson prize and creator of stasiland, affords an exciting story and highly effective love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the german resistance in world war ii in all that i am. All that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and. English written examination wednesday 29 october 2014 reading time. Anna funder trained as an international and human rights lawyer, interests which she continues to pursue in. Anna funder s international bestseller, stasiland, won the samuel johnson prize for nonfiction.
Pdf the generic status of anna funders stasiland 2002 is uncertain, but it. Stasiland stories from behind the berlin wall download. I am running a workshop called beyond sex and shopping. I highly recommend anna funder s book wherever you read it. It follows characters affected by the nazi regime in prewar germany and britain the book was first published in 2011 by penguin books. When hitler came to power in 1933, a tight group of friends and lovers chased outlawed for the nightunited in their resistance to the madness and. All that i am isbn 9780857962775 pdf epub anna funder. Her multiaward winning novel all that i am was an homage to four extraordinary german antihitler activists in exile in london in the 1930s. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 288 pages and is available in paperback format. 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 s 2012 novel all that i am tells the previously untold story of four germanjewish antihitler activists forced to flee to london. 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.
Download free or read online all that i am by anna funder in pdf or epub. Based on reallife events and people, all that i am brings to light the heroic, tragic, and true story of a small group of. 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. All that i am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for. 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. Wesemann was an unsung hero of the resistance movement. In 2012 the miles franklin award went to anna funder s all that i am. Anna funder s story of dissidents in naziera germany deals with themes of freedom and betrayal rachel cusk fri 16 sep 2011 17. 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.
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