Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780670920426
Published: June 2012
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 384
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

All That I Am

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOM

A powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today's political climate.

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...

About the Author

Anna Funder

Anna Funder

Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland and All That I Am. In 2004 Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize and, along with All That I Am, has been published in twenty-six countries. All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Award, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. It was also chosen as a BBC Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime.

Anna was originally trained as an international human rights lawyer. She lives in Sydney.

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