{"product_id":"the-decameron-project-9781398502185","title":"The Decameron Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron”: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In March of 2020, the editors of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e created \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron Project\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407719211351,"sku":"9781398502185","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781398502185.jpg?v=1730500310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-decameron-project-9781398502185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}