They ring for holidays, they ring for weddings - and they ring for the dead, so that the sound might guide their souls to heaven. And yet, when I recalled Connie Willis' groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning science-fiction novel Doomsday Book, the resonances came back to me with the sound of tolling bells.īells ring throughout Doomsday Book - they mark the hours in the small medieval village in which the time-traveling heroine Kivrin Engle has been stranded, awaiting rescue from her contemporaries in Oxford of the 2050s. It is hard for me to conceive of the bravery required to take care of people with this awful, contagious disease. Many sobering statistics have emerged from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but one number in particular has stuck with me: More than 200 health care workers have died so far. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Doomsday Book Author Connie Willis
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