Curfews, quarantine, fake news, insurrection: Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague feels eerily prescient
Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk spent five years working on Nights of Plague, well before the onset of the current pandemic. Perhaps he foresaw history repeating itself; the political fallout from the outbreak of the bubonic plague on his make-believe island of Mingheria in 1901 resonates eerily with our world…
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