· If you are looking for a truly incredible novel Anna Funder’s debut All That I Am is the perfect book for you. All That I Am is the story of a group of young, passionate pacifists that are forced out of Berlin when Hitler comes to power. The novel is told through flashbacks and in alternate voices/5. Based on the real lives of German émigrés, the author weaves a plot filled with politics, love, deceit and betrayal. The novel centers on the lives of Dora Fabian, Ruth Blatt, Hans Wesemann, Berthold Jacob, and playwright, Ernst Toller, who were Socialists and anti-Nazi activists during the ’s and ’s/5(). In ALL THAT I AM Anna Funder finds a new form to approach the truth hidden by history. The novel brings to life the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in , and the precarious refuge these very first, brave and brilliant anti-Hitler opponents found in London. Then as now, exile does not mean safety.
Melbourne, Australia. Education. BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) MA, DCA (Creative Writing) Occupation. Writer. Parent (s) John Funder. Anna Funder (born ) is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am and the novella The Girl With the Dogs. Award-winning 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 real-life events and people, All That I Am brings to light the heroic, tragic, and true story of a small group of. All That I Am by Anna Funder Penguin. pp. I proclaim to all the inhabitants of the land that they cannot trust to what the periodicals say of new books. Instead of being able by reading the criticism to judge of the book, it is now necessary to read the book in order to judge the criticism. - Putnam's Monthly (April
If you are looking for a truly incredible novel Anna Funder’s debut All That I Am is the perfect book for you. All That I Am is the story of a group of young, passionate pacifists that are forced out of Berlin when Hitler comes to power. The novel is told through flashbacks and in alternate voices. Anna Funder's `All That I Am' is a challenging, harrowing and beautifully written account of a close knit group of radical intellectuals during the interwar years in Germany, part of the resistance to Fascism, initially within Germany itself, and then, by , as part of an early group of refugees, driven to flee Germany because they were `on a list' - which basically meant any kind of opposition to rising Fascism. All That I Am Quotes Showing of “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”. ― Anna Funder, All That I Am. tags: abuse, lack-of-compassion, suffering, trauma.
0コメント