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Tendo como ponto de partida a união de George Orwell e Eileen O'Shaughnessy, um dos casamentos literários mais importantes do século XX, Anna Funder reflete de forma honesta sobre o que significa ser esposa e escritora no mundo moderno. "Os biógrafos de Orwell são sete homens olhando um...

Anna Funder’s best-selling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, once declared by the authorities – to his face – ‘no longer to exist’. And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods.

Brought to you by Penguin. A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember...

2001, Sydney. Ruth Wesemann reçoit un mystérieux paquet qui va la replonger dans son passé, celui de l'entre-deux-guerres et du IIIe Reich. À l'époque, Ruth est une jeune photographe insouciante. En 1933, avec l'avènement d'Hitler, sa vie bascule : résistance, persécution, exil. Depuis la capitale anglaise, elle et son mari, Hans, tentent d'aider ceux qui, restés en Allemagne, s'opposent au Chancelier, et notamment sa cousine, Dora Fabian.

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...

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world "Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full...