6/20/2023 0 Comments Anna funder new book![]() ![]() In 2004 Stasiland won the UK's premier award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and was a finalist for many other awards. Stasiland, hailed as a 'classic', tells true stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of others who worked for the Stasi. It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past.Īnna Funder is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am, and the novella The Girl with the Dogs. 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.Ĭompelling 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. 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. But why - and how - was she written out of the story? Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. ![]() 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. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. ![]()
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