Kevin Chong 
The Plague [EPUB ebook] 

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At first it was the dead rats. They started dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The citizenry reacts in disbelief when the diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Inspired by Albert Camus’ classic 1948 novel, Kevin Chong’s
The Plague follows Dr. Bernard Rieux’s attempts to fight the treatment-resistant disease and find meaning in suffering. His efforts are aided by Megan Tso, an American writer who is trapped in the city while on a book tour, and Raymond Siddhu, a city hall reporter at a daily newspaper on its last legs from the latest round of job cuts. Told with dark humor and an eye trained on the frailties of human behavior, Chong’s novel explores themes in keeping with Camus’ original vision–heroism in the face of futility, the psychological strain of quarantine—but fraught with the political and cultural anxieties of our present day.

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About the author

Kevin Chong is the author of six books, including the memoir
My Year of the Racehorse and the novels
Beauty Plus Pity and
Baroque-a-Nova. His work has been published in Canada, the US, France, Australia, and Macedonia, and has been shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Fiction Prize and a National Magazine Award. He teaches at the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program and The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781551527192 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press ● City Vancouver ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6265864 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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