The Doppelganger writer and winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left and posters for her book being torn down in London
on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left and posters for her book being torn down in Londonwon the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction, she discovered that someone had been going round London tearing down posters advertising her book. “And the weird thing is, I didn’t know what had angered them: vaccine disinformation, Zionism, or climate change and Fossil Free Books,” she told the assembled crowd.
The book was published a month before the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, but Klein, speaking to me in her publisher’s offices the morning after the ceremony, resists the suggestion that its publication was prescient. “We’re talking about an occupation that’s been going on since 1967 and a Nakba that happened in 1948”.
“The whole message of Doppelganger is we are all enmeshed in these systems”, she adds. “Nobody’s pure, nobody is perfect. But that’s also not an excuse for doing nothing.” Klein is not sure what her next book project will be – her life at the moment is all about teaching and activism, and she’s happy to say that her husband will be running for election again. The challenge remains to find a new rhetoric for newly challenging times. “If you think about my three biggest books – No Logo, or The Shock Doctrine, or This Changes Everything – they’re quite programmatic and rallying at the end,” she says.
“If we are in a place where the right is rising and the left is losing, if we don’t have the ability to be self critical – if we continue to claim that everything we’ve always done is right – what hope do we have of changing and modifying and perhaps doing better in the future?”
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