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Anna Funder


Born
in Melbourne, Australia
January 01, 1966

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Genre
Nonfiction, Historical Fiction


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 · 45,139 ratings · 4,833 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Stasiland: Stories from Beh...
4.21 avg rating — 21,986 ratings — published 2003 — 90 editions
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Everything Precious
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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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