An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon. In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds.
Frozen in Time
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art. Into this world come four women, each with a story to tell. In a city like Vienna, everything seems possible – until an act of betrayal changes everything.
Prologue
Elena ontdek ’n ou kaart in die solder op hul plaas, ’n kaart wat haar Italiaanse oupa as krygsgevangene na Suid-Afrika gebring het. Dis ’n vonds wat kan lei na ’n goudskat wat die diktator Mussolini in oorlogsbunkers weggesteek is. Wanneer sy die kaart vir haar vriend in Stellenbosch, historikus Ernst, wys, bars alle hel los.
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