On a very basic level, the book dramatises being trapped in at home and not having enough information – and it happened to be published into a reality in which many readers felt that they were trapped in their homes and didn’t have enough information. I’d never even heard the word coronavirus prior to February 2020. Alam lives in Brooklyn with his husband, David Land, a photographer, and their two adopted sons.Ī lot of reviewers called your book “prescient”, given that you wrote it before the pandemic. Now out in paperback, it is being turned into a film by Sam Esmail ( Mr Robot) starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The story of two families, one white, one black, thrust together in a Long Island holiday home amid apocalyptic events, it was described by the Observer as “simply breathtaking… as terrifying and prescient as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”. He is the author of three novels, the latest of which, Leave the World Behind, got rave reviews when it came out in hardback last year. R umaan Alam was born in 1977 and raised in Washington DC.
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