#1 Bestseller
#1 New York Times Bestseller. Man Booker Prize Winner. One of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century — and still, the accolades don’t fully prepare you. A grief-stricken Lincoln. A boy lost in the bardo. A novel that asks how we love knowing everything ends. Devastating. Luminous. Unforgettable.
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#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Man Booker Prize • New York Times Notable Book
One of The New York Times‘s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and NPR. The accolades speak for themselves — and yet, somehow, they still don’t fully prepare you for this book.
February 1862. The Civil War is barely a year old. President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, has just died and been laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt — again and again — to hold his boy’s body.
From that quiet, heartbreaking seed of historical truth, something extraordinary blooms. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory — the bardo of Tibetan tradition — where ghosts mingle, grieve, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. And within this liminal space, a monumental struggle erupts over one small soul.
“A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.” — Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review
“A masterpiece.” — Zadie Smith
Formally daring and “devastatingly moving” (People), this is a novel that asks the most timeless of questions: how do we love when we know that everything we love must end?
The kind of book you’ll want to press into someone else’s hands the moment you finish. We keep a copy close to the register for exactly that reason.
A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.
A masterpiece.
Devastatingly moving.
An absorbing, even propulsive read — which is remarkable, given that it's unlike anything you've read before.
Saunders has written a novel of profound humanity and bewitching strangeness.
Saunders has created a stunning, original novel... It's a tour de force.
A novel that defies easy description... Saunders has written something unlike anything else.
Saunders's debut novel is a heartbreaking, funny, and formally inventive work that confirms him as one of the most important American writers of his generation.
George Saunders's first novel is an original, and a wonder... It's a brave, strange, and finally deeply moving book.
Thrillingly original... a novel of great beauty and power.
| Weight | 0.74 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.47 × 0.74 × 8.26 in |
| Book Author | George Saunders |
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| Accolade | #1 Bestseller, Booker Prize, New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Notable Book |
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