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The Decameron Project : : 29 new Stories From the Pandemic

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Preface / Caitlin Roper -- Introduction / Rivka Galchen -- Recognition / Victor LaValle -- A blue sky like this / Mona Awad -- The walk / Kamila Shamsie -- Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin -- Clinical notes / Liz Moore -- The team / Tommy Orange -- The rock / Leila Slimani -- Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood --Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li -- Outside / Edgar Keret -- Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan -- The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner -- The morningside / Tea Obreht -- Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra -- How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu -- Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell -- If wishes was horses / David Mitchell -- Systems / Charles Yu -- The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano -- An obliging robber / Mia Couto -- Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala -- The cellar / Dina Nayeri -- That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami -- A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks -- Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon -- Origin story / Matthew Baker -- To the wall/ Esi Edugyan -- Barcelona: open city / John Wray -- One thing / Edwidge Danticat.
Presents a collection of 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, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
Contents: Recognition. -- Blue sky like this. -- Walk. -- Tales from the L.A. River. -- Clinical notes. -- Team. -- Rock. -- Impatient Griselda. -- Under the magnolia. -- Outside.

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New York times.



PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982170790

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
LaValle, Victor D., 1972-
Awad, Mona.
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Moore, Liz, 1983-
Orange, Tommy, 1982-
Slimani, Leïla, 1981-
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Li, Yiyun, 1972-
Keret, Etgar, 1967-

SUBJECTS
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.