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All That I Am

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Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award

by Anna Funder
Paperback
Publication Date: 21/03/2012
4/5 Rating 4 Reviews

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When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon...

Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.

She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past - and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life.

When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them - those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested - and in some cases found wanting - in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history.

Based on real people and events, 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.

ISBN:
9780143567516
9780143567516
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
21-03-2012
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
198x131x28mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Anna Funder

Anna Funder is the author of the acclaimed All That I Am, winner of the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, among other awards.

Her first book, the internationally bestselling Stasiland, won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize and was published in twenty countries and translated into sixteen languages.

Anna Funder is a former DAAD and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. She grew up in Melbourne and Paris and now lives in New York with her husband and family.

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An amazing book compiled with a mix of fact and fiction. You probably need a little knowledge of WW2 to get the most out of this book. Highly recommended

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I was attracted to this book as it won the Miles Franklin literary prize, has been in the top sellers list or months and sounded like a good story.

The story is good however to be honest I was a it disappointed in the book, mainly, I think, because I had high expectations of it.

The story is good but it did take me a while to get used to jumping from the past to the present, from Toller's story to Ruth's. all very interesting characters of which Ruth was my favorite.

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This book is ultimately beautiful! Funder's writing brings the character to life, allowing you to experience feelings of terror,joy and sadness with the character's in the book. A well worth purchase that you will want to read over and over again. Purely stunning :)

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