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Deadly Quiet City
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Author : Murong Xuecun
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-10
Deadly Quiet City written by Murong Xuecun and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million – the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak – was cut off from the world. As cherry blossoms fell on silent streets, people were left anxious and afraid, struggling to find medicine, food or information about the virus that had trapped them in their homes. In April 2020, Murong Xuecun bravely travelled to the locked-down city, covertly interviewing people from all walks of life on their experiences as the catastrophe unfolded. An exhausted doctor in a small hospital, battling the virus while sick. An illegal motorcycle taxi driver, ferrying people around the empty city. A citizen journalist fighting to reveal the truth of what happened during that endless spring. The result is eight stories that capture the voices and griefs of a city, and that Murong had to leave China in order to publish. Vivid and haunting, Deadly Quiet City is a unique piece of literary history that reveals so much about the lives of people, the pandemic and China today. Includes editor’s note from Professor Clive Hamilton, author of Hidden Hand
Deadly Quiet City
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Author : Murong Xuecun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02-03
Deadly Quiet City written by Murong Xuecun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-03 with Health & Fitness categories.
From one of China's most celebrated--and now silenced--literary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemic When 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--one of China's most popular writers, silenced by the regime in 2013 for his outspoken books and New York Times articles--followed 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's first and harshest COVID-19 lockdown. In the tradition of Dan Baum's bestselling 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's outbreak 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.
Deadly Quiet City
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Author : Xuecun Murong
language : en
Publisher:
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Quiet City
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Author : Philip Davison
language : en
Publisher: Liberties Press
Release Date : 2020-04-20
Quiet City written by Philip Davison and has been published by Liberties Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-20 with Fiction categories.
Everything works out – except in the end. In the meantime, concentrate on temptations of the flesh; on naked desire. Being properly damned brings its own joy: that's what Richard Meadows is thinking on his way to the city dump to retrieve his wife's favourite chair, which he had thrown away earlier. And that's where he meets old flame Virginia Coates. So begins a dance of circumstance that feeds on Richard's newfound fearlessness, and his desire to be daring. Time to lean in to the danger. How can a nice man like him get things so wrong? For some reason, the sudden closeness between Richard and Virginia doesn't yield the desired intimacy, doesn't satisfy the passion. It is Richard's wife, Gloria, who truly fastens on her chance for fulfilment. Quiet City is a literate, satisfying work of fiction which crosses Richard Ford with Kinky Friedman, with a noir undercurrent. Spellbinding storytelling from a novelist at the height of his powers.
Silent City
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Author : Alex Segura
language : en
Publisher: Polis Books
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Silent City written by Alex Segura and has been published by Polis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Fiction categories.
"The new George Pelecanos is here." — Son of Spade Pete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a co-worker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld - and, shockingly, his father's past. Making it up as he goes and stumbling as often as he succeeds, Pete's surreptitious quest becomes the wake-up call he's never wanted but has always needed - but one with deadly consequences. Welcome to Silent City, a story of redemption, broken friendships, lost loves and one man's efforts to make peace with a long-buried past to save the lives of the few friends he has left. SILENT CITY is a gritty, heartfelt debut novel that harkens back to classic P.I. tales, but infused with the Miami that only Alex Segura knows.
Leave Me Alone
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Author : Xuecun Murong
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2014-06-17
Leave Me Alone written by Xuecun Murong and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with Fiction categories.
An unflinching and darkly funny look at the pressures of life in modern China, where riches and sex abound but not for all.
Silent City
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Author : James Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Silent City written by James Kennedy and has been published by Random House (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Historians categories.
Killer App
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Author : Emerson Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-11-23
Killer App written by Emerson Freedman and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-23 with Fiction categories.
When Jacob is hired to find lost property, his instinct screams that something stinks. Finn and Victoria bicker while trying to stop a terrorist cell from slaughtering thousands. Ben is being chased across the country by remorseless killers, trying to reach a safe haven that haunts his dreams. As the clock ticks down to midnight, hunters and hunted race to work out what is real in a world where even your own memory cannot be trusted.
Drawn Three Ways
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Author : A. E. Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Drawn Three Ways written by A. E. Harvey and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Moving reflections from an influential Anglican pastor, theologian, and teacher In this compelling memoir Anthony Harvey traces the three ways he has felt drawn throughout his life — to a ministry in the Anglican priesthood, to a profession in theological scholarship, and to his marriage and family. Harvey recounts his training of clergy in Canterbury, his time as canon of Westminster Abbey, his teaching and research at the University of Oxford, and his many exciting travels. He also candidly discusses the challenges presented by his marriage to an artist and writer whose spells of mental illness, along with the premature death of their daughter, placed great strain on both his family life and his public responsibilities. Throughout the book Harvey authentically narrates his inner tensions and conflicts, his own spiritual questioning, and his propensity toward a Christian stoicism.
Deadly Silence
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Author : Rebecca Zanetti
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Deadly Silence written by Rebecca Zanetti and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Fiction categories.
DON'T LOOK BACK Under siege. That's how Ryker Jones feels. The Lost Bastards Investigative Agency he opened up with his blood brothers has lost a client in a brutal way. The past he can't outrun is resurfacing, threatening to drag him down in the undertow. And the beautiful woman he's been trying to keep at arm's length is in danger...and he'll destroy anything and anyone to keep her safe. Paralegal Zara Remington is in over her head. She's making risky moves at work by day and indulging in an affair with a darkly dangerous PI by night. There's a lot Ryker isn't telling her and the more she uncovers, the less she wants to know. But when all hell breaks loose, Ryker may be the only one to save her. If his past doesn't catch up to them first... Full of twists and turns you won't see coming, Deadly Silence is New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti at her suspenseful best. Fans of New York Times bestsellers Maya Banks, Lisa Gardner, and Lisa Jackson will love Deadly Silence. RT Book Reviews Readers' Choice Award Winner!