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Supernatural Civil War tale, grief meets humor.

"Lincoln in the Bardo" is one of those rare reads that merges the sorrow of loss with an unexpected comedic touch. It's perfect if you're intrigued by history yet open to an inventive twist on the Lincoln legacy. Witnessing Abe Lincoln's anguish through a chorus of ghostly voices provides a multifaceted perspective that's both poignant and oddly entertaining. As Saunders weaves this supernatural narrative, you'll find yourself pondering the profound alongside the afterlife's absurdities.

  • Booker Prize (2017)
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2019)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2018)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2017)
  • Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019)
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Lincoln in the Bardo

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ISBN: 9781408871751
Authors: George Saunders
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2018-02-08
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.75
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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
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"Lincoln in the Bardo" is one of those rare reads that merges the sorrow of loss with an unexpected comedic touch. It's perfect if you're intrigued by history yet open to an inventive twist on the Lincoln legacy. Witnessing Abe Lincoln's anguish through a chorus of ghostly voices provides a multifaceted perspective that's both poignant and oddly entertaining. As Saunders weaves this supernatural narrative, you'll find yourself pondering the profound alongside the afterlife's absurdities.

  • Booker Prize (2017)
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2019)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2018)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2017)
  • Gordon Burn Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.