The Decameron project : 29 new stories from the pandemic / The New York Times Magazine ; illustrations by Sophy Hollington.

• 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 Tóibín -- Clinical notes / Liz Moore -- The team / Tommy Orange -- The rock / Leïla Slimani -- Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood -- Under the magnolia / Yiyun Li -- Outside / Etgar Keret -- Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan -- The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner -- The morningside / Téa 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 -- The time of death, the death of time / Julián 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." 

Ämnesord

Short stories, American.  (LCSH)

COVID-19 (Disease)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors).  (bisacsh)

FICTION / Disaster.  (bisacsh)

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.  (bisacsh)

COVID-19 (Disease)  (fast)

Short stories, American  (fast)

Genre

Short stories.  (fast)

Fiction.  (fast)

Short stories.  (gsafd)

Short stories.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

PN6120.2 (LCC)

808.83/1 (DDC)