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#BESTSELLERDeadly Quiet City: True Stories from WuhanSinopsis :From one of China&#8217most celebrated&#8212ansilenced&#8212lierary authors, riveting portraits of eightWuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemicWhen a strangenew virus appeared in the largest city in central China late in2019, the 11 million people living there were oblivious to whatwas about to hit them. But rumors of a new disease soonbegan to spread, mostly from doctors. In no time, lines of sickpeople were forming at the hospitals. At first the authoritiesdownplayed medical concerns. Then they locked down theentire city and confined people to their homes.From Beijing,Murong Xuecun&#8212on of China&#8217most popularwriters, silenced by the regime in 2013 for his outspoken
books and New York Times articles&#8212folowed the statemedia fearing the worst. Then, on April 6, 2020, he made hisway quietly to Wuhan, determined to look behind the heroicimages of sacrifice and victory propagated by the regime toexpose the fear, confusion, and suffering of the real peopleliving through the world&#8217first and harshest COVID-19lockdown.In the tradition of Dan Baum&#8217bestselling NineLives, Deadly Quiet City focuses on the remarkable stories ofeight people in Wuhan. They include a doctor at the frontline, asmall businessman separated from his family, a volunteer whothrew himself into assisting the sick and dying, and a partyloyalist who found a reason for everything. Although theChinese Communist Party has devoted enormous efforts torewriting the history of the pandemic&#8217outbreak inWuhan, through these poignant and beautifully writtenfirsthand accounts Murong tells us what really happened inWuhan, giving us a book unlike any other on the earliest daysof the pandemic.

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