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Deadly Quiet City: True Stories from Wuhan
Sinopsis :
From one of China&#8217most celebrated&#8212an
silenced&#8212lierary authors, riveting portraits of eight
Wuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemicWhen 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 Xuecun&#8212on of China&#8217most popular
writers, silenced by the regime in 2013 for his outspoken

books and New York Times articles&#8212folowed 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 world&#8217first and harshest COVID-19
lockdown.In the tradition of Dan Baum&#8217bestselling 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 pandemic&#8217outbreak 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.