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Published: 10/05/2012
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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.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780670920426
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 270 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 23 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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“All that I am: Pre-war resistance in exile”

This is the true story of a group of German exiles who fought against the Nazi regime when Hitler rose to power during the years before the Second World War.

We accompany four main characters: Ruth, Dora, Toller and... More

Hardback edition
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“Well worth reading”

This is definitely not a light bedtime read as I discovered when I first tried to get into the plot. Swift period changes and different characters meant I had several attempts at getting started. So glad I persevered... More

Hardback edition
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“All That I am”

Based on true life events and characters this is an intelligent and thoughtful novel of friendship, love and betrayal.
Informative and moving.

Paperback edition
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