All That I Am
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"Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past - and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting
… More »"Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past - and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life. When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them - those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested - and in some cases found wanting - in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history." -- Book cover.
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Add a CommentThis is a talented writer. But you have to like reading a story where the plot is told from different point of views.And in this case the author didn't try to make the characters very likable. But I found it very interesting.
Dreary book, couldn't get interested in any characters.
If you're interested in anything to do with WWII or the Nazis then this is a book you should read. Written by a good friend of the one of the main characters; Ruth. This is a true story of some of the Germans who worked against the Nazis and Hitler, from outside of Germany as well as from within. I didn't know, and was surprised to learn, that the British government bent under the pressure from the Nazis that exiled Germans were not allowed to publish anything, they were constantly surveilled, followed, and any activities kept track of by German spies. Most of what I've read previously has focussed on the actual war or life in Germany, not the life of Germans in England during the war. So this was a new part of the story for me. Plus, great first book from an Australian writer, which makes it that much better.
The first chapter started off well enough, but then the book kept switching back and forth between the 2000s and the 1930s, not just between chapters, but with flashbacks in each chapter. I just wanted to see the past part of the story, though neither past nor present, or the people in either, really kept my interest.
How Nazi power shattered lives.