An American short-story writer of intimidating talent' Zadie Smith Dark, concerned, confused and funny, all at the same time ... Like so much of Saunders' brilliant, crazy writing it's relevant, but not too relevant' The Times From the No.
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An American short-story writer of intimidating talent' Zadie Smith Dark, concerned, confused and funny, all at the same time ... Like so much of Saunders' brilliant, crazy writing it's relevant, but not too relevant' The Times From the No.
Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best Anne Enright, Guardian A triumph of storytelling i paper A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart Daily Mail From the pre-eminent writer of politica
THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO 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 hazar
Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas Pynchon In PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, fals
'Were lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen 'A morally passionate, serious writer' Zadie Smith 'Heres something I know to be true, although its a little corny, and I dont quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are f
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian This book is a delight, and its about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment Tessa Hadley ________________ From the New York Tim
An American short-story writer of intimidating talent' Zadie Smith Graceful, dark, authentic and funny' Thomas Pynchon You do not read Saunders' stories so much as watch them detonate on the page in front of you, like a firecracker some joker
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH A masterpiece Zadie Smith Extraordinary Daily Mail Breathtaking Observer A tour de force Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Awa
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo I think hes the greatest writer since Salinger Richard Ayoade I love this collection and it has one of my favourite st
A stunning collection including the story Sea Oak, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December , a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Haile
NEW YORK TIMES 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."--
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2026 'The first must-read book of the year' Vogue 'Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age' Independent 'One of America's most dis
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The New York Tim
Niemand versteht es, so virtuos und ungewöhnlich über ganz gewöhnliche, unvollkommene Menschen zu schreiben, die sich mit einer nicht ganz gewöhnlichen, unvollkommenen Welt herumschlagen, wie George Saunders. Der unumstrittene Meister der zeitgenössischen
Named a book of the year 2022 by the Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, BBC and Waterstones 'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny an
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world-featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal. Fox
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December , a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers,
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The "devastatingly moving" ( People ) 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
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2026 'The first must-read book of the year' Vogue 'Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age' Independent 'One of America's most dis
Wie funktionieren gute Geschichten, wie schreibt man sie und was erzählen sie uns über unsere Welt: George Saunders führt den Leser durch sieben klassische Kurzgeschichten der russischen Meister Tschechow, Turgenjew, Tolstoi und Gogol, so wie er es zwanzi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The "devastatingly moving" (People) 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
"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."-- Oprah Daily Booker Prize wi
An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next Not for the f