The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
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Narrated by:
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Adenrele Ojo
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Written by:
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Michael Lewis
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.'
In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated - and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again.
This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren't prepared.
The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It's a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgment and imagination. It's the story of how we got to now.
©2021 Michael Lewis (P)2021 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about The Premonition
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- Prasad
- 17-09-21
The behind the scenes story of the pandemic
This has all the elements of a thriller. The government ineptitude, political intrigue, unpredictable raging virus and massive loss of lives. That clarifies the ridiculous back and forth by the CDC, embarrassing presidential waffling, why Fauci could not be wished away by Trump etc. It has a few heroes who tried hard to prevail despite all the pressure to be otherwise. Narration was a bit robotic with irrelevant inflections. But one gets used to it after a few hours!
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- Chinmaya Chitlangia
- 11-11-23
Another winner from Michael Lewis
I have to say I am a Michael Lewis fan and this book does not disappoint. it's an incredible story about a bunch of odd balls who tried to make a difference. listen to it. well worth your time.
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- Neeraj Sinha
- 26-11-22
Wonderful book on the pandemic
I will probably rate the book 4.5 but that option is not there. The bungling of United States during Covid comes alive in the book. And it is inspiring to read about the main characters of the book who had the Premonition of a catastrophe like this and had thought of the solutions which unfortunately were either not implemented or implemented quite late.
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- Anuj Arora
- 20-08-21
Anti climax - great built up but disappointing end
Loved the details On each character but wanted to know more on us govt response to corona and all the chaos due to trump but not much on that
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