But with each breathtaking act of courage and every person that they trust, they cannot help but risk betrayal and deceit. 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. Having dedicated themselves to resisting the Nazi's rise, they have become hunted outlaws overnight. Her life and those of her tight-knit group of friends are about to change beyond all recognition. Hans is making caipirinhas, snow falls outside the kitchen window, and Hitler is making his first speech as Chancellor of Germany. 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. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door.
AUTHOR HAS SIGNED, LINED & DATED DIRECT TO HALF-TITLE PAGE. Book in as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition.
1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, Penguin Books Ltd, 2011. Exiled from Germany following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they find themselves adrift in Bloomsbury, "dislocated and struggling" among the other political emigrnats.Hardcover. However, whereas the horrors in Stasiland smacked of fiction, so poignantly rendered were her snapshots of East German life, here the exact opposite is the case: truth shaped into fiction, but with equally devastating results.Ĭlick here to get money off this book from at Independent's bookshopĪll That I Am is based an actual group of left-wing, predominantly Jewish German activists, at the centre of which are Ruth Wesemann (also referred to as Ruth Becker and Ruth Blatt, depending on where you choose to draw the boundaries between character and historical figure) her husband Hans her cousin Dora Fabian and Dora's lover, the playwright Ernst Toller. It is a fitting sequel to Stasiland – winner of the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction – as again Funder has proved herself an adroit chronicler of German history. In her debut novel, the Australian writer Anna Funder weaves together fact and fiction to produce a compelling and moving portrait of the struggle against Nazi oppression.
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