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Anna Funder

Born

in Melbourne, Australia

January 01, 1966

Website

http://annafunder.com/

Genre

Nonfiction, Historical Fiction

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Anna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and a radio and television producer. Her book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Sydney with her husband and family.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 41,577 ratings · 4,436 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 4.20 avg rating — 20,428 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life 4.11 avg rating — 9,848 ratings — published 2023 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That I Am 3.82 avg rating — 10,187 ratings — published 2011 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll, Anna Funder (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 3,577 ratings — published 1949 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl with the Dogs 3.53 avg rating — 851 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin (City-Lit Series) by Heather Reyes (Goodreads Author), Katy Derbyshire (Editor), Tamsin K. Walker (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Precious 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage, Survival, Greed: Sydney pen voices : the 3 writers project by Anna Funder, Melissa Luscashenko, Christopher Kremmer 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'invisibile signora Orwell by Anna Funder, Katia Bagnoli (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That I Am: A Novel by Anna Funder, Judy Bennett (Goodreads Author) (narrator), Saul Reichlin (narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

tags: anna-funder, anxiety, calm, freedom, gdr, germany, purpose, rhymn, trains

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“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”
― Anna Funder, All That I Am

tags: abuse, lack-of-compassion, suffering, trauma

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“She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

tags: brave, broken, brokenness, epitaph, not-real, strong, surreal, unreal

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

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