All That I Am - Couverture souple

Funder, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0670921238 ISBN 13 : 9780670921232

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2012

Synopsis

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, great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Spellbinding ... there are echoes of the best espionage tales (Sunday Telegraph)

A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it (Spectator)

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)

Dora is the most attractive fictional heroine in a long time ... a gripping story of love and betrayal (New Statesman)

A seamless and powerful tale ... of individual endeavour and survival that examines universal human themes (Independent on Sunday)

A remarkable story told with clarity and precision (Guardian)

The subtlety of Anna Funder's novel is in the elegance of her precise prose, and in her painstaking portrait of an ordinary woman swept up in extraordinary events ... The result is a strong and impressively humane novel (TLS)

A story of courage and betrayal ... she has captured the atmosphere of what it must have been like to have been at the centre of the left-wing movement in post-war Germany (Evening Standard)

Anna Funder proved herself a first-rate reporter with Stasiland - now she appears as a compelling novelist in a dark story of German emigres in the 1930s, struggling to warn the indifferent English against the Nazis (Claire Tomalin)

The subtlety of Anna Funder's novel is in the elegance of her precise prose, and in her painstaking portrait of an ordinary woman swept up in extraordinary events...The result is a strong and impressively humane novel (Ruth Scurr TLS)

Quatrième de couverture

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.

When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her cousin Dora in Munich in 1923, she meets the love of her life, the dashing young journalist Hans Wesemann, and eagerly joins in the heady activities of the militant political Left in Germany. Ten years later, Ruth and Hans are married and living in Weimar Berlin when Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany. Together with Dora and her lover, Ernst Toller, the celebrated poet and self-doubting revolutionary, the four become hunted outlaws overnight and are forced to flee to London. Inspired by the fearless Dora to breathtaking acts of courage, the friends risk betrayal and deceit as they dedicate themselves to a dangerous mission: to inform the British government of the very real Nazi threat to which it remains willfully blind. All That I Am is the heartbreaking story of these extraordinary people, who discover that Hitler’s reach extends much further than they had thought.

Gripping, compassionate, and inspiring, this remarkable debut novel reveals an uncommon depth of humanity and wisdom. Anna Funder has given us a searing and intimate portrait of courage and its price, of desire and ambition, and of the devastating consequences when they are thwarted.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670921238
• ISBN 13: 9780670921232
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 373
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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