New Decameron. 29 novels of pandemia

People tell stories from the very beginning of time. They talk about what they saw and what they heard about. They talk about what happened and what could be. They tell you to distract, pass the time or survive difficult times. Sometimes such stories turn into chronicles, annals, monuments to individual periods and eras. Thus appeared “Tales of thousands and one night”, “Canterbury stories” and “Decameron” Bokkacchacho.

“New Decameron” - this is also a kind of monument to the era, which will definitely go down in history. The New York Times Magazine editors gathered 29 novels, essays, fairy tales, tiny sketches and detailed reasoning. In them, the most famous modern writers tried to capture and comprehend the events that swept every corner of the world.