2020: A Reckoning

Eric Klinenberg, a renowned sociologist, and best-selling author, explores the pandemic's impact on societies, revealing what unites and divides us, and how we value things. He combines personal stories with global data to provide insights into the nature of societies and their ability to come together or fall apart.

Format: Hardback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg transforms a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this insightful, meticulously researched, and cathartic account of the pandemic.

A gripping, deeply moving account, SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of The Song of the Cell, What unites us? What divides us? What do we value? Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic. In this book, he tells the deeply reported stories of seven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicentre of the crisis, and combines them with data gathered from around the world to provide unprecedented insights into what societies are made of, why they come together or fall apart, and how they shape our lives.

Compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture, our institutions, and ourselves, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, A book that is at once intimate and far-ranging, that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility, Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction.

Weight: 694g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781847926937