"Todo lo que soy" de Anna Funder (Título original: "All That I Am")...

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En septiembre de 2001, Ruth Wesemann, una anciana alemana radicada en Sídney, recibe un ejemplar de I Was a German de Ernst Toller junto con una serie de escritos autobiográficos en los que el dramaturgo estaba trabajando en 1939, antes de suicidarse en un hotel neoyorquino. En ellos, un Toller atormentado evoca sus recuerdos, desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta la llegada de Hitler al poder, y, ante todo, evoca a Dora Fabian, la valiente y carismática activista política que fue su amante. Al hilo de estos escritos, Ruth rememora sus propios y dolorosos recuerdos y los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en los años de entreguerras, cuando Dora, Toller, la propia Ruth y Hans, su marido, fueron forzados a exiliarse en Londres. Allí se entregan con entusiasmo a la actividad política clandestina y sufren el engaño y las traiciones de unos tiempos difíciles en los que nada es lo que parece.

 

 

 

 

Mediante dos voces narrativas que se intercalan con fluidez y alternan recuerdos y reflexiones, Anna Funder nos ofrece un sólido relato en el que se conjugan el dramatismo y el humor, las pinceladas tragicómicas y las dosis justas de hondura y emoción.

 

 

Vídeo: All That I Am - Anna Funder. 01/09/2011. From Anna Funder, the author of Stasiland, a thriller and a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance.

 

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.