'The Plague' by Albert Camus selling out fast in Japan after Coronavirus outbreak

As dely novel Coronavirus continues to spre, countries are upping ir defences and stepping up healthcare and prevention measures to curb spre. Meanwhile, scientists and researchers are rushing to find origin and a vaccine for virus. 

re have been many ories and ideas that people are putting forward as an explanation of what is happening. People have also pointed out at some novels and works of fiction that talk about a similar kind of disease that will spre and destroy humanity in ir dystopian world. A recent dition to this Albert Camus' Plague.

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Plague flying off shelves

According to an article by a Japanese news agency, copies of Albert Camus' novel Plague are in high demand in Japan. article talks about how re is a high demand for translation of novel at Japanese bookstores. article also says that bookstores are struggling to provide people with book as it vanishes from shelves as soon as y are in stock. 

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Plague was published in year 1947. book traces story of a group of people who live in a city that is sealed off from or world. citizens are struggling due to outbreak of a pathogen. re are many scenes in book where politicians take various measures to limit or curb any furr spre of disease. Japanese reers keep finding parallels from novel with current situation in world. 

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Albert Camus used to write during World War II. Plague is set in Oran, which is in northwest Algeria currently. story has a lethal infectious disease that breaks out and city is in lockdown. It beautifully portrays how people are facing invisible enemy. 

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book's Japanese publisher Shinchosha was quoted saying that orders of book started coming as news of Coronavirus along with virus itself started spreing in February. se orders have increased to seven to eight times. y also revealed that y have decided to print an ditional 4,000 copies to try to meet demand.

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