George Saunders

Man Booker Prize 2017.Una emotiva historia de fantasmas sobre la pérdida, el dolor y la familia.Febrero de 1862. En medio de la sangrienta guerra civil que divide al país en dos, el hijo de doce años del presidente Lincoln esta gravemente enfermo. En cuestion de pocos dias, el pequeño Willie muere y su cuerpo es trasladado hasta un cementerio en Georgetown. Los periodicos de la epoca recogen a un Lincoln deshecho por la pena que visita la tumba en varias ocasiones para guardar el cuerpo de su hijo.A partir de este hecho historico, Saunders despliega una historia inolvidable sobre el amor y la perdida que se adentra en el territorio de lo sobrenatural, alli donde tiene cabida desde lo terrorifico hasta lo hilarante. Willie Lincoln se halla en un estado intermedio entre la vida y la muerte, el llamado Bardo segun la tradicion tibetana. En este limbo, donde los fantasmas se reunen para compadecerse y reirse de lo que dejaron atras, una lucha de dimensiones titanicas surge de lo mas profundo del alma del pequeño Willie.

¿Por qué nos fascina George Saunders? Por su maestría, ritmo y sentido del humor. Pero lo que diferencia al escritor texano, profesor de la Universidad de Siracusa, es su estilo. Lo que él llama 'realismo hiperbolico'. Los relatos de Saunders son como extraños objetos de arte que toman situaciones familiares y telones de fondo del modo de vida americano, para saturarlos de un color hiperrealista y un lenguaje retorcido. Dijo Cervantes que la brevedad es el alma del ingenio.

Uma visão alucinante e sarcástica da vida contemporânea nos contos inventivos e emocionantes de um mestre da narrativa norte-americana. Eleito um dos melhores livros do século XXI pelo The New York T

Amb aquesta obra Saunders posa les cartes sobre la taula i ens confessa que no són bones, però també ens diu que, malgrat aquesta mala mà, cal continuar jugant la partida perquè conèixer la veritat,

Depois do premiado Lincoln no limbo, o mestre do conto contemporâneo está de volta com uma nova coleção de fantasias sombrias e narrativas cheias de humor e absurdo.Em Dia da libertação, George Saund

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Bizarre but familiar, fierce but always humane, these are stunningly original stories by a master of the form. "Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed". (Zadie Smith). "He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him". (Jonathan Franzen). "There is no-one better, no-one more essential". (Dave Eggers).

Febrer de 1862. La guerra de Secessió fa menys d’un any que dura, però ja comença a ser sagnant. Mentrestant, Willie Lincoln, l’estimat fill d’onze anys del president, és a la Casa Blanca, greument m

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017 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?

Wahrend des amerikanischen Burgerkriegs stirbt Prasident Lincolns geliebter Sohn Willie mit elf Jahren. Laut Zeitungsberichten suchte der trauernde Vater allein das Grabmal auf, um seinen Sohn noch einmal in den Armen zu halten. Bei George Saunders wird daraus eine allumfassende Geschichte uber Liebe und Verlust, wie sie origineller, faszinierender und grandioser nicht sein konnte.Im Laufe dieser Nacht, in der Abraham Lincoln von seinem Sohn Abschied nimmt, werden die Gespenster wach, die Geister der Toten auf dem Friedhof, aber auch die der Geschichte und der Literatur, reale wie erfundene, und mischen sich ein. Denn Willie Lincoln befindet sich im Zwischenreich zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits, in tibetischer Tradition Bardo genannt, und auf dem Friedhof in Georgetown entbrennt ein furioser Streit um die Seele des Jungen, ein vielstimmiger Chor, der in die eine groe Frage mundet: Warum lieben wir uberhaupt, wenn wir doch wissen, dass alles zu Ende gehen muss?

La Casa Blanca, febrero de 1862. Mientras Abraham Lincoln intenta hacer frente a una guerra civil que apenas acaba de comenzar, su hijo Willie fallece con tan sólo once años. Incapaz de dejarlo ir, el presidente visita la tumba en la que descansa el cuerpo, mientras el pequeño, atrapado entre la vida y la muerte, en un limbo habitado por fantasmas que ignoran su destino, se enfrenta a su propia lucha en lo mas profundo de su alma. A partir de un hecho real, George Saunders nos invita en su primera novela a un banquete para la imaginacion y entrega su trabajo mas original hasta la fecha. Desarrollada en un cementerio a lo largo de una sola noche y narrada por un magnifico coro de voces, Lincoln en el Bardo es una experiencia literaria unica que habla del amor, la perdida y los vinculos familiares. Saunders, reconocido internacionalmente como maestro del relato corto, ha sido galardonado con el Premio Man Booker por esta obra extraordinaria, unica e increiblemente gratificante, en palabras del jurado. Un acto brillante de generosidad y humanismo, Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review

Hi ha mil maneres d’abordar el món que, obra rere obra, George Saunders configura: una d’elles és la d’endinsar-se en la mordaç reflexió sobre les relacions de poder que en més o menys mesura sobrevo

he long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedFebruary 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincolns beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, the president says at the time. God has called him home. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boys body.From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional statecalled, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardoa monumental struggle erupts over young Willies soul.Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fictions ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? Praise for George Saunders “No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.”—Khaled Hosseini “George Saunders is a complete original. There is no one better, no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity.”—Dave Eggers “Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does.”—Junot Diaz “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—

Diez de Diciembre es un libro de relatos de George Saunders publicado en 2013. Finalista del National Book Award. Mejor libro del año según The New York Times. Tras seis años de silencio, George Saunders regresa con Diez de diciembre, su esperado nuevo libro de relatos. Diez extraordinarias piezas ubicadas en la America suburbana y periferica, escritas con una de las voces mas particulares de la narrativa estadounidense contemporanea. El amor, el tedio en el trabajo, el sexo y la muerte son algunos de los temas que el autor trata con un estilo que ha sido destacado por la critica como innovador, intenso y profundamente emotivo. Los relatos reunidos en este volumen juegan con la hibridacion de generos y se acercan muchas veces a lo comico, a la ciencia ficcion distopica o a lo grotesco. Descubrir a Saunders implica descubrir una nueva forma de entender la literatura, una nueva forma de trabajar con el lenguaje y, sobre todo, implica para el lector la posibilidad de alcanzar estados de exaltacion unicos e irrepetibles.

El joc de mirades i el llenguatge que utilitza Saunders per parlar de les classes, el sexe, l´amor, la feina, el desassossec, la mort i la guerra faran que el lector es pregunti de què està fet el secret de la seva literatura, que produeix en qui la llegeix un estat d'exaltació difícil d´explicar.

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoMacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. 'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother's Day', two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer', our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed - his memory 'scraped' - a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters.

A gapper is a bit of a ''burr'' but it is a dangerous thing. When it attaches itself to the goats the goats become very unhappy and even stop giving milk. There is nothing gappers like more than goats and nothing goats hate more than gappers. When gappers get your goats it means trouble. In one small town gappers are a real pest and it takes the ingenious approach of Capable to find a soution - if a solution exists at all.

Un recull de relats magistral que explora el poder, l''''ètica i la justícia ¿Com conservar el seny en un món que ha descarrilat? "El dia de l’alliberament" ens parla de gent corrent i dels seus inte