Anna Funder Knihy

V roce 1989 padla berlínská zeď a krátce na to se rozdělené Německo znovu sjednotilo. Přestala existovat Německá demokratická republika. V zemi, kde se nejvyšší velitelství tajné policie doslova přes noc změnilo v muzeum a kde jeden z padesáti občanů donášel na své spoluobčany, čekají na své zveřejnění tisíce příběhů. Anna Funder vypráví ty nejzajímavější z nich: o svém setkání s dívkou Miriam, která jako šestnáctiletá málem rozpoutala třetí světovou válku, nebo s mužem, který vyznačil linii budoucí berlínské zdi. Autorka popisuje ztracenou zemi, v níž groteskně přerostlá a všemocná tajná policie Stasi, která ovládala a v mnoha případech nakonec i zničila životy jejích občanů, zasahuje do všech sfér lidského života. Ačkoli dramatická výstavba a barvitost dějů by prozrazovala románové ambice, jedná se o literaturu faktu.

Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own, and when she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story?Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London. As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell's private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer - and what it is to be a wife.Compelling and utterly original, Wifedom speaks to the unsung work of women everywhere today, while offering a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century. It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past.

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 it she meets with a flood of memories of her time in Germany during the Nazis' rise to power.

Author(s): Anna Funder ISBN: 9780143567516 Binding: Paperback Published: 2012-04-02 When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the greate playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take awe-inspiring risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart. Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days is Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten.