All That I Am

A brilliant narrative...Every part beautifully rendered and balanced...it works as a gripping spy novel...Funder's prose raises the book to a different level...This book is a wonder. --The Spectator [An] enthralling historical novel. --O, the Oprah Magazine A bravura piece of storytelling-perfectly plotted, exactingly described...Funder has taken the raw material of truth and from it created a novel of real power and beauty. --Daily Telegraph (London) A literary work as suspenseful as the best thrillers, Funder's extraordinary first novel is an unflinching portrait of courage in devastating circumstances. --Library Journal A remarkable story told with clarity and precision, along with moments of insight and literary grace. --Rachel Cusk, The Guardian A seamless and powerful tale...Funder has successfully transformed the material into a narrative of individual endeavor and survival, which examines universal themes. --The Independent on Sunday A spiraling account of political activity and love...this beautiful tapestry of friendship and loyalty during one of history's darker times will appeal to fans of novels about WWII. --Library Journal A strong and impressively humane novel...the subtlety of Anna Funder's novel is in the elegance of her precise prose, and in her paintstaking portrait of an ordinary woman swept up in extraordinary events... --Times Literary Supplement (London) Absorbing debut novel...[Funder] adds an integral perspective on a shopworn subject by invoking the lives of Nazi dissidents whose attempts to alert the world to the growing menace were ignored until it was too late. --Publishers Weekly 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... --Colum McCann Imaginative, compassionate and convincing...In her first novel, Funder combines her proven gift for re-creating the past with the fiction writer's license to reveal emotional truth through artifice. --Wall Street Journal In ALL THAT I AM, Anna Funder delivers a sweeping first novel that covers love and war, friendship and betrayal, and the bonds that define a life. It is a moving and ambitious work. --Ann Patchett Like Hillary Mantel's brilliant WOLF HALL, Funder's new book is not just a novel or thriller, and is also far more than mere history. --Betsey Burton, The King's English Bookshop 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 (London) Funder writes with grace and conviction about the intrusion of the political on the domestic and the thrill of falling in love over a cause. --New York Times Book Review