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Cuestiones candentes: Una mirada crítica a la realidad actual, desde el feminism o hasta el cambio climático / Burning Questions

by (author) Margaret Atwood

Publisher
PRH Grupo Editorial
Initial publish date
Jul 2023
Category
Essays, Feminist, Women Authors
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9788418968655
    Publish Date
    Jul 2023
    List Price
    $35.95

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RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW Y EN SU PODCAST READ WITH JENNA
Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática.

La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones candentes como... ¿Por qué la gente cuenta historias, sea cual sea su cultura? ¿Cuánto puedes dar de ti sin evaporarte? ¿Cómo podemos vivir en nuestro planeta? ¿Qué relación hay entre los zombis y el autoritarismo?

Una colección de ensayos de actualidad con el marchamo indiscutible de la que quizá sea la novelista viva más famosa y, sin duda, la más venerable de nuestro tiempo.

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In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything, from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions, such as...

• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and her other beloved works.
• 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 more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

About the author


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 fifty 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, part of the Massey Lecture 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.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. 

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Editorial Reviews

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«Ésta no es una mera colección de ensayos para los entusiastas de Atwood. Más bien es un intento de dar sentido al mundo, que aborda con un brío característico cualquier cosa, desde Ana la de Tejas Verdes a Donald Trump, desde los zombis a la censura [...]. Mientras que el tono se mueve entre el ingenio surrealista fuera de serie y la gravedad desapasionada, Atwood siempre consigue que la idea de las grandes preguntassea un poco más digerible. [...] La colección es polifónica, entusiasta, esclarecedora.» -Sophie Macintosh, i News

«Es fascinante leer las reflexiones de Atwood sobre sus propias novelas [...], pero tambiénes llamativo ver cuántas piezas incluye en este libro que celebran de manera generosa a otros escritores.» -Stephanie Merritt, The Observer

«Si hay una persona en el mundo cuya opinión sobre las cuestiones más apremiantes te gustaría conocer, seguramente sería Margaret Atwood. [...]Da respuesta apreguntascandentes sobre el cambio climático, el ascenso de Trump y sobre la deuda técnica.» -Joanna Taylor, Evening Standard

«Una colección de ensayos para devanarse los sesos de Margaret Atwood,la autoraganadoradel premio Booker. Percepciones maravillosamente escritas que van desde los zombis a la crisis climática.» - Stylist

«Me bebí el libro el fin de semana pasado, de dos cálidos tragos.» -Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic

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