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LINCOLN IN THE BARDO - GEORGE SAUNDERS KARTONIE...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH 'A masterpiece' Zadie Smith
'Extraordinary' Daily Mail 'Breathtaking' Observer 'A tour de force' Sunday Times The
extraordinary first novel by the bestselling  Folio Prize-winning  National Book
Award-shortlisted George Saunders  about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old
son  Willie  at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President
Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days  Willie dies and is
laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns
to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth 
George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of
realism  entering a thrilling  supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie
Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called  in Tibetan tradition  the bardo
- and as ghosts mingle  squabble  gripe and commiserate  and stony tendrils creep towards the
boy  a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night 
Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour  pathos and grace. Here
he invents an exhilarating new form  and is confirmed as one of the most important and
influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical  kaleidoscopic panoply of voices
- living and dead  historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question:
how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?

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