' Anna Funder has never written better- every sentence is crisp and glowing, with a world of emotion floating just out of reach.' The Saturday Paper Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Anna Funder was born in Australia and spent much of her childhood in Paris. A couple of day trips to the East only served to heighten her curiosity, and after the Wall fell. I wondered long and hard what went on behind that Wall, she writes in Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall (Granta). The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what's really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All That I Am. Australian Anna Funder’s first contact with East Germany came in the 1980s, when she was a student in West Berlin. What could she have made of her life had she chosen differently? And what will she risk to find out? Deceptively concise, The Girl with the Dogs is a masterful story about life from beginning to end, and about the brief moments of choice that have enduring consequences. A former DAAD, Australia Council and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Anna was InStyle Magazines Woman of the Year 2013 in Creative arts. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she decided against in her youth. 'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed.
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