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The Decameron Project - 29 New Stories from the Pandemic (Paperback)
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The Decameron Project - 29 New Stories from the Pandemic (Paperback)
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A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned
by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the
world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy
Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a
project inspired by Boccaccio's The Decameron. When reality is
surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. In 1353, Giovanni
Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron": one hundred nested tales told by a
group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside
Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that
killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly,
some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March of 2020, the editors
of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an
anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection
of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe.
How might new fiction from some of the finest writers working today
help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could
be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?
These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret
Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and David Mitchell vary
widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a
historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in our
lifetimes, and offer perspective and solace to the reader now and
in a future where coronavirus is, hopefully, just a memory. Table
of Contents: "Preface" by Caitlin Roper "Introduction" by Rivka
Galchen "Recognition" by Victor LaValle "A Blue Sky Like This" by
Mona Awad "The Walk" by Kamila Shamsie "Tales from the LA River" by
Colm Toibin "Clinical Notes" by Liz Moore "The Team" by Tommy
Orange "The Rock" by Leila Slimani "Impatient Griselda" by Margaret
Atwood "Under the Magnolia" by Yiyun Li "Outside" by Etgar Keret
"Keepsakes" by Andrew O'Hagan "The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase"
by Rachel Kushner "The Morningside" by Tea Obreht "Screen Time" by
Alejandro Zambra "How We Used to Play" by Dinaw Mengestu "Line 19
Woodstock/Glisan" by Karen Russell "If Wishes Was Horses" by David
Mitchell "Systems" by Charles Yu "The Perfect Travel Buddy" by
Paolo Giordano "An Obliging Robber" by Mia Cuoto "Sleep" by
Uzodinma Iweala "Prudent Girls" by Rivers Solomon "That Time at My
Brother's Wedding" by Laila Lalami "A Time of Death, The Death of
Time" by Julian Fuks "The Cellar" by Dina Nayeli "Origin Story" by
Matthew Baker "To the Wall" by Esi Edugyan "Barcelona: Open City"
by John Wray "One Thing" by Edwidge Danticat
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