Sarnath Banerjee

In an exclusive reveal to mid-day, both authors share that the content will take readers from the Byzantine Empire through Muslim Spain and Early Modern Europe into nineteenth-century Hong Kong, Mumbai and San Francisco, asking how the plague changed societies and morality around the world, and how this resonates with us in times of the current pandemic. “It points out that measures intended to hedge in the plague led to the attempt of creating of a hetero-normative, conservative universe, and the othering of those who did not belong to that universe, to homophobia, anti-Semitism, and measures against people working at the margins,” Banerjee and Hauser, tell us.

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Hemali Sodhi, founder, A Suitable Agency that is representing this book, adds, “We’ve become painfully aware of how a plague or pandemic shapes human history and redefines personal spaces. This book delves brilliantly into this subject which holds deep fascination for so many of us. The narrative, marked by Hauser’s scholarship, is complemented by Banerjee’s wry illustrations to present an intriguing portrait of the precarious human condition confronted by a situation beyond human control. This is a book that truly speaks to our times.”