Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 (Bloomsbury Publishing) - Hardcover

Críticas

George Saunders's brilliant debut novel about a grieving Lincoln confirms him as a literary star . To read Saunders's fiction is to be dazzled by ingenuity, imagination and searing comic verve ... A tender but trenchant reminder that America is and always has been many-voiced: not one story, but millions (Sunday Times)

Death haunts us, and in Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders mines the many ways it does: the Gothic, the sentimental, the fearful and, above all, the grief-stricken (Joan Bakewell New Statesman, Books of the Year 2017)

I was impressed but challenged by the originality and scope of George Saunders's Booker-winning story of grief and empathy, Lincoln in the Bardo (Gordon Brown Guardian, Best Books of 2017)

A luminous feat of generosity and humanism. Such is Saunders's magnificent portraiture that readers will recognize in this wretchedness and bravery aspects of their own characters as well (Colson Whitehead New York Times)

The most strange and brilliant book you'll read this year . Riotously imagined ... So intimate and human, so profound, that it seems like an act of grace (Financial Times 2017-03-04)

A historical novel that hews deeply and movingly to archival fact while also being an all-out crazy spectacle of his own invention ... A puzzling, hilarious vortex of invention that only Saunders could pull off. The novel made me feel intimate with Lincoln, and that particular moment of history, in a way I never had before (Jennifer Egan Guardian, Best Books of 2017)

Ingenious ... As entrancing as it is beautiful (Chigozie Obioma Observer, Best Books of the Year 2017)

Dazzling and disorientating . As you turn the pages of this remarkable novel it starts to feel uncannily like a hinge in American history (The Times)

Lincoln in the Bardo was every bit as wonderful as I expected from the great George Saunders (Paul Murray Observer, Best Books of the Year 2017)

It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force ... Steeped in morality, it's a master-feat of vitality (Sunday Times 2017-02-26)

Biografía del autor

George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

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