The Story of Silence

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The literature of “what comes after” begins here. Lucid, calm, informed, helpful in trying to think about where we are now… If this current coronavirus crisis has left you feeling vulnerable, disorientated, and lonely, then Eugenia Rico’s The Story of Silence will not only comfort you, it will also open your eyes to what’s been happening around the world. Informative, intimate and loving, Rico’s thoughts on this worldwide tragedy will wrap you in a blanket of human warmth. This groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic lucidly explains how our interconnectedness will save us. In this extraordinarily elegant work written from lockdown in Venice as the crisis deepened day to day, Eugenia Rico, bestselling writer with a PhD in Human Rights, shows us what this outbreak is really about: human interconnectedness. Illuminating with great simplicity the big picture of how the disease spreads and placing it in the context of other modern crises like climate change...