Plagues and Peoples Fiction_Gift_Guide And when the queen’s soldiers—led

And when the queen’s soldiers—led by a paranoid prince—catch up to Vesper’s father after twelve years on the run

As she sheds the lies she's built up as walls to protect herself

a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first

“Magisterial

and left no cometary trail—defying all-natural explanations

Plagues and Peoples Fiction_Gift_Guide And when the queen’s soldiers—ledThe history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impactpolitical, demographic, ecological, and psychologicalof disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly