Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
Description
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
• How can we live on our planet?
• Is it true? And is it fair?
• What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the 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) and how to define granola, we have no better guide than Atwood to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
About Authors
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
أسئلة ملحة
عن الكتاب
تكتب آتوود عن الغابات وتاريخ الأشجار بالتعمق نفسه الذي تكتب به عن تاريخ الرواية وآفاق روايات الديستوبيا، وتتفحص قضايا البيئة والاقتصاد بدقة تناولها لمفهوم الجمال أو تطور الأزياء أو بطاقات التاروت، لكن أيًّا كان ما تكتب عنه، فالمتعة حاضرة لأنها تجيد تحويل حتى أعقد الموضوعات إلى قصة آسرة للانتباه، مشحونة بالدراما والكوميديا في آنٍ.
في "أسئلة مُلحَّة"، نقف على أهم تحديات عصرنا وانشغالاته، مسترشدين برؤى واحدة من ألمع العقول المعاصرة، لنعرف معها ومن خلالها الكثير عن عالمنا وتاريخنا وبالتالي أنفسنا.