by Anna Funder · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670920396
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«All That I Am» is the historical novel by Anna Funder, published by Viking in hardcover (370 pages, in English).
A group of German activists who opposed Hitler flees after his rise to power in 1933. Refugees in London, they continue their fight in secret while the Gestapo stalks them. Ernst Toller and Ruth, who loved Dora, reconstruct their story in a tale based on real events about resistance and the price of courage.
First edition of 2011. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Australian Book Industry Award. The plot is inspired by the real story of Hans and Ruth Wesemann.
For readers of historical fiction and novels about World War II, and for book clubs.
Anna Funder is an Australian author. Her book, Stasiland, won the 2004 UK's Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in the English language. In 2012 her novel All That I Am, won Australia’s most prestigious fiction prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller on release in August 2023 and it was awarded France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2024. The book was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, the Independent, the Economist, LitHub, the Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Times.
