Anna Funder

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. When eighteen-year-old 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. Ten years later, Ruth and Hans are married and living in Weimar Berlin when Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany. Together with Dora and her lover, Ernst Toller, the celebrated poet and self-doubting revolutionary, the four become hunted outlaws overnight and are forced to flee to London. Inspired by the fearless Dora to breathtaking acts of courage, the friends risk betrayal and deceit as they dedicate themselves to a dangerous mission: to inform the British government of the very real Nazi threat to which it remains willfully blind. All That I Am is the heartbreaking story of these extraordinary people, who discover that Hitler’s reach extends much further than they had thought. Gripping, compassionate, and inspiring, this remarkable debut novel reveals an uncommon depth of humanity and wisdom. Anna Funder has given us a searing and intimate portrait of courage and its price, of desire and ambition, and of the devastating consequences when they are thwarted.

A Novel

All That I Am

Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Wifedom

In this book, Anna Funder tells the stories of people who found the courage to resist the Stasi, the communist regime's secret police.

Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Stasiland

Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own . . .

When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story?

Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell's private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer - and what it is to be a wife.

Compelling and utterly original, Wifedom speaks to the unsung work of women everywhere today, while offering a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century. It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past.

Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

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 flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the greate playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take awe-inspiring risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart. Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days is Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten.

Alles, was ich bin

Laurie Clancy

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Stasiland by Anna Funder

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THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A fitting tribute to the unsung work of women everywhere and the perfect Christmas gift! 'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation' Tom Hanks 'Furious and fascinating' The Times ***** Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own . . . When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WWII in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell's private life, she is led to question what it takes to be a writer - and what it is to be a wife. ***** 'A spellbinding achievement' FT 'Brilliant' Claire Tomalin 'Wonderful, unexpected and exciting' Antonia Fraser

Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

Entdecken Sie 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall »Stasiland« neu. In einer Welt totaler Überwachung durch die Stasi erzählt die australische Autorin Anna Funder in ihrem internationalen Bestseller von mutigem Widerstand und der Macht des Gewissens. – Exklusiv mit einem aktuellen Nachwort der Autorin. Als Anna Funder 1987 zum ersten Mal nach Berlin kam, verliebte sie sich in die zweigeteilte Stadt. Nach dem Fall der Mauer kehrt sie zurück und trifft in Ostberlin überall Menschen, die den Mut besaßen, sich der Diktatur zu widersetzen. Sie trifft Miriam, die von Jugend an in Konflikt mit der Stasi lebt, einen alternden Rock-Star, der nach dem System »nicht mehr existierte« sowie einen jungen Stasi-Mitarbeiter, der den Verlauf der Mauer plante. Aber es gibt auch Spione und Stasi-Offiziere, die weiter an die »Firma« glauben. Mutig, offen und unbelastet, in einer perfekten Mischung von Einfühlung und Distanz, erzählt Funder deren spannende Geschichten, die unsere Gegenwart bis heute prägen. »Anna Funder untersucht auf menschlichste und einfühlsamste Weise Lebensgeschichten, die von der Staatssicherheit in Ostdeutschland zerstört wurden.« J. M. Coetzee »Wahre Geschichten aus dem Land hinter der Berliner Mauer – kein anderes Buch hat mich in den letzten Jahren so gepackt. Es ist faszinierend, unterhaltsam, witzig, erschreckend und absolut wichtig.« Tom Hanks

C'era una volta la DDR

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STASILAND

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Caroline Jacoba Louise Kloos

Impressies van het alledaagse leven in Oost-Duitsland onder het communistische regime (1949-1989).

Stasiland Signed Edition

Ruth Thomas

Stasiland Insight Text Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in - depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and structure; a chapter - by - chapter/scene - by - scene analysis; discussion of characters and relationships; highly informative section o...

Insight Text Guide

Anna Funder's Stasiland

Melissa Luscashenko

Christopher Kremmer

The nature of courage; the European notion of 'survival' as against the indigenous one; an analysis of greed - three brilliant essays written by leading and acclaimed Australian writers unflinchingly show us our world as never before.

Courage, Survival, Greed

'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she decided against in her youth. What could she have made of her life had she chosen differently? And what will she risk to find out? Deceptively concise, The Girl with the Dogs is a masterful story about life from beginning to end, and about the brief moments of choice that have enduring consequences. Includes Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, 'The Lady with the Dog'.

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