On the seventh issue of our weekly Wright tells “Year One”, the world that will come after Covid (here his exclusive interview).
When the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright started writing “Pandemia” (published in Italy by Piemme) Covid did not yet exist. It was 2017. Yet in the novel, delivered to the publisher in the summer of 2019, words such as Coronavirus, quarantine, restrictive measures, social distancing, masks, vaccines were already read. Terms that soon became part of our everyday language.
In “Pandemic” Wright tells the story of Dr. Henry Parsons, a world-famous epidemiologist who in Indonesia discovers a mysterious virus, capable of spreading rapidly around the world. The novel hit the shelves of Italian bookstores on May 5, 2020. At that time “much of its content had merged with the daily news,” wrote Marion Winik of the Washington Post in her review.
Wright was “prophetic”, although the writer has often rejected this definition by explaining that it was coincidences. And research. Before writing the book, in fact, the journalist had interviewed some of the most important virologists and epidemiologists in the world. The parallelism with what has happened in the last two years is in any case extraordinary.
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