{"id":20137,"date":"2020-07-05T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/05\/planet-virus-seven-novelists-from-around-the-world-on-living-with-the-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-07-05T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T11:00:40","slug":"planet-virus-seven-novelists-from-around-the-world-on-living-with-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20137","title":{"rendered":"Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 has exposed social and political fault lines from Brazil to Iceland to South Korea. Here, seven acclaimed writers share their lockdown experiences<\/p>\n<p><em>Tayari Jones is the author of <\/em><em>five<\/em><em> novels. Her <\/em><em>fourth<\/em><em> book, <\/em><em>An American Marriage,<\/em><em> won the 2019 Women\u2019s <\/em><em>prize <\/em><em>for <\/em><em>fiction. Her latest novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/apr\/13\/silver-sparrow-by-tayari-jones-review-daddys-girls-with-a-difference\">Silver Sparrow<\/a>, was published <\/em><em>in March, to critical acclaim. Born and raised in Atlanta, she returned to the city recently after a decade in New York, to teach at <\/em><em>Emory University<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/05\/planet-virus-seven-novelists-from-around-the-world-on-living-with-the-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 has exposed social and political fault lines from Brazil to Iceland to South Korea. Here, seven acclaimed writers share their lockdown experiencesTayari Jones is the author of five novels. Her fourth book, An American Marriage, won the 2019 Wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,452,1069,71,533,1368,914,451,56,222,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-brazil","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-culture","category-germany","category-iceland","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-new-zealand","category-south-korea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions\/20138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}