All That I Am (Paperback)

from ilovejfranzen

'All that I am' is not your average holocaust book. Anna Funder carves out a little-covered niche in time - the period before the worst of the atrocities - as the setting for her excellently written and researched book. The book's main characters are left-wing intelligenzia fleeing from Germany i...

from whirled

It is sometimes difficult to separate a book from the hype surrounding it, and this is particularly true since All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Award. When it comes down to brass tacks, this is not an especially insightful look at life for refugees of the Holocaust, but it is still an interes...

from TheWasp

The fictional story of a group of young political activists who are forced to flee Germany in the years before WWII and the reach of the Nazis to silence them. The author uses real people and events and The voices of Ernst Toller and Ruth as narrators,

from Astrid_91

Dieser Roman handelt von der bewegenden Lebensgeschichte der Ruth Blatt, welche im Roman als Protagonistin Ruth Wesemann in Erscheinung tritt. Bei Ruth Blatt handelt es sich um eine deutsche Widerstandskämpferin, die zum Zeitpunkt der Machtergreifung Hitlers nach London floh, um dort alles, was s...

from thewanderingjew

This is a very well-written story of betrayal, bravery and its shameful opposite, cowardice. In an imagined novel about true events, acclaimed author, Anna Funder, has presented a visual of Hitler's brutality, the political games played during his regime, and the accompanying blind eye of the wor...