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Doppelganger

by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
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#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER
Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes)
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
Vulture’s #1 Book of 2023
A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2023
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail • TIME • Esquire • Slate • Harpers’ Bazaar • The Times • The New Republic • Toronto Star • CBC • The Boston Globe • Electric Lit



What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against?
Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see.
    An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.
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Publisher: Knopf Canada Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781039006935
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  • Release date: September 12, 2023
  • Duration: 14:46:59

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  • Release date: September 12, 2023
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#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER
Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes)
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
Vulture’s #1 Book of 2023
A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2023
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail • TIME • Esquire • Slate • Harpers’ Bazaar • The Times • The New Republic • Toronto Star • CBC • The Boston Globe • Electric Lit



What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against?
Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other. For a vertiginous moment, she lost her bearings. And then she got interested, in a reality that seems to be warping and doubling like a digital hall of mirrors. It’s happening in our politics as New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers find common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting “the children”). It’s happening in our culture as AI gobbles up music, paintings, fiction and everything in between and spits out imitations that threaten to overtake the originals. And it’s happening to many of us as individuals as we create digital doubles of ourselves, filtered and curated just so for all the other duplicates to see.
    An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, public intellectual and activist, Naomi Klein writes books that orient us in our time. She has offered essential accounts of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Now, as liberal democracies teeter on the edge, Klein takes aim at absurdist authoritarianism, using a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the doubles that haunt us. Part tragicomic memoir, part chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Doppelganger invites readers on a wild ride, smashing through the mirror world, charting a path beyond despair towards true solidarity.
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Politics Nonfiction Media Studies
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Knopf Canada
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781039006935
    File size: 425756 KB
    Release date: September 12, 2023
    Duration: 14:46:59

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781039006935
    File size: 425821 KB
    Release date: September 12, 2023
    Duration: 14:52:52
    Number of parts: 17

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