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
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