And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic by Various

13/04/2021 11h 55min
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic by Various

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Title: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Various
Narrator: Raechel Wong
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Release date: April 13, 2021
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. In Queens, after thirteen-hour shifts in the ER, a doctor dons running shoes and makes the long jog home. And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection—from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more—detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. Together they comprise a profound global portrait of the defining moment of our time, and send a clarion call for solidarity across borders.

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