Liberation Day

Stories

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—<i>Oprah Daily</i></b><br><br><b>Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Tenth of December.</i></b><br><b><br>ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, </i>NPR, <i>Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Newsweek, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal</i></b><br><br>The “best short-story writer in English” (<i>Time</i>) 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 exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.<br><br>“Love Letter” is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. “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. 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 reprogra

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780525509615

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 134 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US