How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: From the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak
Literary essays, Politics & government, Self-help & personal development
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better
It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?
In this beautifully written and illuminating polemic, Booker Prize nominee Elif Shafak reflects on our age of pessimism, when emotions guide and misguide our politics, and misinformation and fear are the norm.
A tender, uplifting plea for optimism, Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to reveal how writing can nurture democracy, tolerance and progress. And in the process, she answers one of the most urgent questions of our time.
Praise for How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: From the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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'One of the best writers in the world today'
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'One of the most important writers at work today' - Independent
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'PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS - :
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'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in
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Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose'' - Vanity Fair
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'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative' - The High Low
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