BooksSales of fiction about epidemics have increased considerably in recent months, suggesting that readers are leaning to themes of the moment. Government quarantines the early-infected people in an abandoned mental asylum and the army guarding it shoots anyone trying to escape. The Painted Veil by Somerset MaughamThis novel is set in the rural China, the heart of a cholera epidemic in the 1920s. Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is a 2003 post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction, the first volume of her MaddAdam trilogy. Set in the backdrop of cholera outbreak in Cartagena, this novel parallels between the symptoms of love and cholera.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 11, 2020 17:48 UTC