How Contagion Works : Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate - Paolo Giordano

How Contagion Works

Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

By: Paolo Giordano

Paperback | 16 January 2020 | Edition Number 1

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A rallying cry for a new form of global solidarity in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. Written from the Italian lockdown.

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.
Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world:

why it matters

how it impacts us how we must react


By expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news and xenophobia - Giordano shows us not just how we got here but also how we can work together to move forward.

About the Author

Paolo Giordano is a physicist and a bestselling writer. His first novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, was translated into more than 40 languages worldwide and won the Premio Strega (the Italian Booker).

Paolo is the author of the forthcoming novel Heaven and Earth and of the pamphlet How Contagion Works, a rallying cry inspired by the recent CoV-19 epidemic. He is also the creator of the new HBO series We Are Who We Are, co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino. He holds a master's degree and a PhD in theoretical physics.
Industry Reviews
It is modest, lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here. - Evening Standard

A slim guide to understanding this virus and preparing ourselves for what comes next. - The Times

Potent and original. - Sunday Times

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