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All That I Am

The tense and moving WW2 love story from the author of Stasiland and Wifedom

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All That I Am

Yazan: Anna Funder
Seslendiren: Judy Bennett, Saul Reichlin
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anna Funder's All That I Am, a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance. Read by Judy Bennett and Saul Reichlin.

One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. Opening its delicate pages she meets with a flood of memories...

It's 1933 and she is back in her light-filled flat in Berlin. Hans is making caipirinhas, snow falls outside the kitchen window, and Hitler is making his first speech as Chancellor of Germany. Her life and those of her tight-knit group of friends are about to change beyond all recognition. Having dedicated themselves to resisting the Nazi's rise, they have become hunted outlaws overnight. Fleeing the country, Ruth and Hans find refuge in a basement flat in Bloomsbury, but inspired by Ruth's fearless cousin Dora, they defy the conditions of their visas and risk being sent back to Germany in order continue their dangerous resistance work. But with each breathtaking act of courage and every person that they trust, they cannot help but risk betrayal and deceit. And then, one day, they face the chilling realisation that Hitler's reach extends much further than they had thought, even to London itself.

Inspiring, tragic and based on real events, All That I Am is a masterful and devastating novel of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices that people endure to protect their beliefs and of discovering remarkable heroism hidden in the most unexpected of places.

 20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Political War & Military Aşırı duygusal İlham verici
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Brilliant and necessary ... Here is someone who knows how to tell the truth
A journey into the bizarre, scary, secret history of the former East Germany that is both relevant and riveting
A terrific act of life-giving to people who have lacked not just a voice but an audience
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)
A superb novel that transcends its setting...This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it
History, like hope, is not something to be solved, but to be carried. Anna Funder has written an essential novel about how we carry the bricks of history on our backs, and how we continually build new homes from the material of the past. All That I Am is an intimate exploration of human connection and our responsibility to one another. Funder breathes life into Kundera's aperçu that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
A seamless and powerful tale...the book is far more than "faction"; Funder has successfully transformed the material into a narrative of individual endeavour and survival, that examines universal human themes...Dora and Ruth, especially, convey a sense of truthfulness and decency that transcends their time and should inspire us, even now, to expose injustice and tyranny (Rachel Hore)
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
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This novel follows the lives of a group of friends through the years of their opposition to Hitler's growing power in Germany and their exile in pre-war London as refugees. At its core it is political but it's not 'about politics'. It's strength is the brilliant characterisation which makes you fear for these people as if they were your own friends. Resonates with current world politics but it's the main characters who will stay with you for a very long time.

A slow burn to a shattering finish

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Unfortunately, I think that like me there many people from the "allied" nations are quite ignorant of the stories about ordinary Germans who resisted the Nazi regime - especially like those in this book who tried to warn France, Britain and America etc about Hitler before they were willing to listen. This is a beautifully written tale of moral courage, love, desire and betrayal.

Brilliant

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All That I Am has all the necessary thrills and spills of your average pre-war espionage novel. But it so much more than that. Based on a true story, it sketches out the years leading up to the second world war and the attempts of a band of German resistance fighters to stop the Nazis rise to power. What makes it such a special book is that Anna Funder never sensationalises her subject, she just tells it like it is (or was). And it's all the more heartbreaking and devastating because of it.

Measured, evocative storytelling. A must read.

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This is a fictionalised retelling of real events and real people in their efforts to alert the world to the actions and intension of the fascist right in Germany in the years leading up to WWII. A book about the cost of speaking truth to power. A heartrenching and compassionate story about people who in their own small way were true heroes.

Forgotten history that should be known

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This is an intriguing and enjoyable tale about an elderly woman looking back on her life. I will look for more by this author.

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