Written entirely in the form of questions, this book draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilisation - to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history. Kurlansky considers the work of Confucius, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, the Talmud, Charles de Gaulle, Virginia Woolf, and others, distilling the deep questions of life to their sparkling essence.
