Título: Deadly Quiet City
Autor: Murong Xuecun
Sinopse: From one of Chinas most celebratedand silencedliterary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemic When a strange new virus appeared in the largest city in central China late in 2019, the 11 million people living there were oblivious to what was about to hit them. But rumors of a new disease soon began to spread, mostly from doctors. In no time, lines of sick people were forming at the hospitals. At first the authorities downplayed medical concerns. Then they locked down the entire city and confined people to their homes. From Beijing, Murong Xuecunone of Chinas most popular writers, silenced by the regime in 2013 for his outspoken books and New York Times articlesfollowed the state media fearing the worst. Then, on April 6, 2020, he made his way quietly to Wuhan, determined to look behind the heroic images of sacrifice and victory propagated by the regime to expose the fear, confusion, and suffering of the real people living through the worlds first and harshest COVID-19 lockdown. In the tradition of Dan Baums bestselling Nine Lives, Deadly Quiet City focuses on the remarkable stories of eight people in Wuhan. They include a doctor at the frontline, a small businessman separated from his family, a volunteer who threw himself into assisting the sick and dying, and a party loyalist who found a reason for everything. Although the Chinese Communist Party has devoted enormous efforts to rewriting the history of the pandemics outbreak in Wuhan, through these poignant and beautifully written firsthand accounts Murong tells us what really happened in Wuhan, giving us a book unlike any other on the earliest days of the pandemic.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Deadly Quiet City”, de Murong Xuecun, publicado pela editora The New Press, em 2023 e com 170 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: The New Press
Páginas: 170
Ano: 2023
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 1620978024
ISBN13: 9781620978023
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora The New Press apresentam uma leitura que mescla rigor investigativo e compromisso social, frequentemente abordando temas de justiça, direitos humanos e crítica cultural. O catálogo reúne obras que exploram tanto análises históricas detalhadas, como relatos de movimentos sociais, quanto reflexões políticas e religiosas progressistas, sempre com um tom que convida à reflexão profunda. A linguagem varia entre o acessível e o denso, com narrativas que podem ser tanto documentais quanto ensaísticas, mantendo um ritmo que privilegia o contexto e a complexidade dos temas. Há obras que combinam relatos pessoais e entrevistas com análises acadêmicas, mostrando um interesse constante por histórias de resistência e transformação social.
