Burning Questions Av Margaret Atwood

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: <br/> <br/>Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? <br/>How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? <br/>How can we live on our planet? <br/>Is it true? And is it fair? <br/>What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? <br/> <br/>In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe. <br/> <br/>'Brilliant and funny' Joan Didion <br/> <br/>'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' Ali Smith <br/> <br/>'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' New York Times Book Review <br/> <br/>'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it' Anne Enright, Guardian <br/> <br/>'The outstanding novelist of our age' Sunday Times