The Decameron Project by The New York Times

The Decameron Project

The New York Times with Kamila Shamsie, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Yu, Alejandro Zambra, Téa Obreht, Matthew Baker, Esi Edugyan, Victor LaValle, Margaret Atwood, John Wray, Rachel Kushner, Karen Russell, Etgar Keret, Liz Moore, David Mitchell, Julián Fuks, Uzodinma Iweala, Rivers Solomon, Andrew O'Hagan, Dinaw Mengestu, Laila Lalami, Dina Nayeri, Mona Awad, Yiyun Li, Paolo Giordano, Leïla Slimani, Tommy Orange, Colm Tóibín, Mia Couto

320 pages • first pub 2020 (view editions)

fiction short stories emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
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When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. 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 grues...

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