Tiempos de Contagio / How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19
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Tiempos de Contagio / How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19


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Este texto de Giordano sobre la crisis del COVID-19 fue compartido más de 4 millones de veces en Italia y se ha publicado en 25 países. Se trata de una reflexión sobre nuestra responsabilidad colectiva, porque, «en tiempos de contagio, somos un solo organismo, una comunidad».

Un nuevo virus irrumpe en un país lejano, aunque no tan lejano. La Tierra se ha vuelto pequeña. Día tras día, billones de impulsos digitales transportan la información a la velocidad de la luz de un punto a otro del planeta; infinidad de aviones surcan los cielos, borrando fronteras a su paso y trasladando sin pausa a millares de personas; y, a menor velocidad, miles de toneladas de mercancías se mueven en todas direcciones en un incesante intercambio mercantil que nutre la economía global.

Y si los bienes materiales llegan hasta los lugares más recónditos con inusitada fluidez, con mayor celeridad aún se transmiten los elementos intangibles consustanciales al ser humano: la palabra, las ideas, los sentimientos, las emociones. Así pues, ante la amenaza de un virus letal de alcance universal, una miríada de opiniones, conjeturas y teorías de todo tipo -desde aquellas basadas en el rigor de la ciencia hasta las que brotan de la fértil imaginación de iluminados y charlatanes- nos envuelve como un sofocante alud que nos dificulta ver, pensar y decidir con sensatez.

En este contexto tan especial, Paolo Giordano comparte con encomiable honestidad y valentía una serie de reflexiones y emociones que le provoca esta inaudita situación, poniendo de manifiesto otra vez una rara virtud para aunar dos mundos supuestamente irreconciliables: la contundente racionalidad del científico con la vulnerabilidad y las incertezas propias de un escritor sensible y comprometido.

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The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us.

Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here. --Evening Standard (UK)

In this extraordinarily elegant work written from lockdown in Italy as the crisis deepened day to day, Paolo Giordano, the internationally bestselling writer of The Solitude of Prime Numbers with a PhD in physics, shows us what this outbreak really is about: human interconnectedness.

Illuminating the big picture of how the disease spreads with great simplicity and mathematical insight and placing it in the context of other modern crises like climate change and xenophobia, Giordano reveals how battling the pandemic is ultimately about realizing how inextricably linked all our lives are and acting accordingly.

Both timely and timeless, How Contagion Works is an accessible, deeply felt meditation on what it means to confront this pandemic both as individuals and as a community and empowers us not to show fear in the face of it.
About the Author: Paolo Giordano nació en Turín en 1982 y es licenciado en Física Teórica. Con apenas veintiséis años se convirtió en el fenómeno editorial más notable de los últimos tiempos en Italia. La soledad de los números primos fue galardonada con numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Campiello Opera Prima y, especialmente, el Premio Strega 2008 -el más importante de Italia-, además de cosechar un éxito sin precedentes para un autor novel: se publicó en cuarenta países y se vendieron más de dos millones de ejemplares solo en Italia. En España recibió el Premio de los Lectores 2009 de la revista Qué leer.

Cinco años más tarde, su segunda novela, El cuerpo humano (Salamandra, 2013), fue recibida con enorme entusiasmo en el mundo entero. De la tercera, Como de la familia, La Stampa dijo que abría para su autor «un camino mucho más complejo e interesante de lo que muchos de sus admiradores se habrían atrevido a imaginar».


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788418107542
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 127 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8418107545
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jun 2020
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 122 mm


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