Surge In Sales Of Books About Plagues

Camus’s The Plague follows the inhabitants of Oran, an Algerian townthat is sealed off by quarantine as it is ravaged by bubonic plague.Penguin is rushing through a reprint of its English translation to meetdemand, but said on Thursday it had sold out of stock on Amazon. Thepublisher added that sales in the last week of February were up by 150%on the same period in 2019.– The Guardian