Anna Funder Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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.

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 must flee the country. Dora, passionate and lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. They take breathtaking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe haven they think it to be and a single chilling act of betrayal will then.

Avec l’avènement du Troisième Reich, l’existence insouciante de quatre jeunes Berlinois bascule. Persécutés, ils s’exilent en Angleterre. Depuis Londres, ils tentent d’alerter le monde, désespérément aveugle, sur la terrible menace que représentent Hitler et le régime nazi. Inspiré d’une histoire vraie, Tout ce que je suis met en lumière la destinée héroïque et tragique de ce petit groupe de militants qui organisèrent au péril de leur vie une résistance acharnée contre la cruauté indicible. Un extraordinaire roman où amour et aveuglement se confondent dans un ballet d’ombres.

Truth can be stranger—and more fascinating—than fiction. Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. Funder meets Miriam, the sixteen-year-old who might have started World War III. She visits the regime's cartographer, obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall, then gets drunk with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the east, once declared by the authorities 'no longer to exist'. And she finds spies and Stasi men, still loyal to the Firm as they wait for the next revolution. Stasiland is a lyrical, at times funny account of the courage some people found to withstand the dictatorship, and the consequences for those who collaborated. Funder explores the daily chaos and harsh beauty of Berlin, a place where some people are trying to remember, and others just as hard to forget. Stasiland is a brilliant debut by a prodigiously gifted writer.