George Saunders

Una fábula ecologista ilustrada en la mejor tradición de Roald Dahl y La colina de Watership,áen una preciosa edición de regalo para todos los públicos.Zorro 8 siempre ha sido conocido como el soñador de la manada, al que sus otros compañeros zorros miran con desden y por el que ponen los ojos en blanco. Hasta que consigue desarrollar una habilidad unica: aprende a hablar "Umano" escondiendose frenta a la ventana de una casa y escuchando las historias que una madre cuenta a sus hijos antes de dormir. El poder del lenguaje alimentara su curiosidad creciente por ellos, incluso despues de que la construccion de un "Centro Comerzial" en las cercanias de la madriguera ponga en peligro la supervivencia de la manada y le embarque en un peligroso viaje para salvar a los suyos.aEscrita con mucha ternura, humor y una profunda conviccion etica, y acompañada de las preciosas ilustraciones deaChelsea Cardinal,aZorro 8 es una carta de amor de un animal a los humanos y una llamada de atencion a cuidar del medioambiente.

Febrero de 1862. En medio de la sangrienta guerra civil que divide al país en dos, el hijo de doce años del presidente Lincoln está gravemente enfermo. En cuestión de pocos días, el pequeño Willie muere y su cuerpo es trasladado hasta un cementerio en Georgetown. Los periodicos de la epoca recogen a un Lincoln deshecho por la pena que visita la tumba en varias ocasiones para guardar el cuerpo de su hijo.A partir de este hecho historico, Saunders despliega una historia inolvidable sobre el amor y la perdida que se adentra en el territorio de lo sobrenatural, alli donde tiene cabida desde lo terrorifico hasta lo hilarante. Willie Lincoln se halla en un estado intermedio entre la vida y la muerte, el llamado Bardo segun la tradicion tibetana. En este limbo, donde los fantasmas se reunen para compadecerse y reirse de lo que dejaron atras, una lucha de dimensiones titanicas surge de lo mas profundo del alma del pequeño Willie.

Tres meses despues de que George Saunders diera el discurso de clausura a una nueva generación de estudiantes de la Universidad de Siracusa, una transcripción de sus palabras fue publicada en la web de The New York Times, donde su mensaje directo e inspirador toco la fibra de muchos lectores: en pocos dias, el articulo fue compartido mas de un millon de veces. ¿Por que? Porque las palabras de Saunders representan el deseo de todos nosotros de tener una vida mejor, en la que seamos mas amables y menos egoistas, mas abiertos y afectuosos. Poderoso, inteligente y terriblemente divertido, este libro ofrece un mensaje inspirador de uno de los escritores mas influyentes y originales.

Wahrend des amerikanischen Burgerkriegs stirbt Prasident Lincolns geliebter Sohn Willie mit elf Jahren. Laut Zeitungsberichten suchte der trauernde Vater allein das Grabmal auf, um seinen Sohn noch einmal in den Armen zu halten. Bei George Saunders wird daraus eine allumfassende Geschichte uber Liebe und Verlust, wie sie origineller, faszinierender und grandioser nicht sein konnte.Im Laufe dieser Nacht, in der Abraham Lincoln von seinem Sohn Abschied nimmt, werden die Gespenster wach, die Geister der Toten auf dem Friedhof, aber auch die der Geschichte und der Literatur, reale wie erfundene, und mischen sich ein. Denn Willie Lincoln befindet sich im Zwischenreich zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits, in tibetischer Tradition Bardo genannt, und auf dem Friedhof in Georgetown entbrennt ein furioser Streit um die Seele des Jungen, ein vielstimmiger Chor, der in die eine groe Frage mundet: Warum lieben wir uberhaupt, wenn wir doch wissen, dass alles zu Ende gehen muss?

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 monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? Praise for George Saunders “No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.”—Khaled Hosseini “George Saunders is a complete original. There is no one better, no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity.”—Dave Eggers “Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does.”—Junot Diaz “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—

The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?

Diez de Diciembre es un libro de relatos de George Saunders publicado en 2013. Finalista del National Book Award. Mejor libro del año según The New York Times. Tras seis años de silencio, George Saunders regresa con Diez de diciembre, su esperado nuevo libro de relatos. Diez extraordinarias piezas ubicadas en la America suburbana y periferica, escritas con una de las voces mas particulares de la narrativa estadounidense contemporanea. El amor, el tedio en el trabajo, el sexo y la muerte son algunos de los temas que el autor trata con un estilo que ha sido destacado por la critica como innovador, intenso y profundamente emotivo. Los relatos reunidos en este volumen juegan con la hibridacion de generos y se acercan muchas veces a lo comico, a la ciencia ficcion distopica o a lo grotesco. Descubrir a Saunders implica descubrir una nueva forma de entender la literatura, una nueva forma de trabajar con el lenguaje y, sobre todo, implica para el lector la posibilidad de alcanzar estados de exaltacion unicos e irrepetibles.

George Saunders's first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are Saunders's travel essays based on his trips to seek out the mysteries of the "Buddha Boy" of Nepal; to attempt to indulge in the extravagant pleasures of Dubai; and to join the exploits of the minutemen at the Mexican border. Saunders expertly navigates the works of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Esther Forbes, and leads the reader across the rocky political landscape of modern America. Emblazoned with his trademark wit and singular vision, Saunders's endeavor into the art of the essay is testament to his exceptional range and ability as a writer and thinker.

Inadaptados, fracasados, solitarios y optimistas. Los personajes de estos absurdos relatos reflejan los males de nuestro tiempo.

Saunders pinta en estos textos el presente y el futuro de América, un territorio difícil y decadente. Sus habitantes son víctimas de los abusos del poder, del trabajo como alienación y de la humillacion permanente. La imagen del parque tematico que recorre estas paginas muestra la individuo atrapado en un sistema rigido, sin contenidos ni futuro.

A Pastoralia tot allò que passa en la vida real està capgirat i exagerat per oferir-nos una asimètrica versió de la societat moderna nord-americana. Aquests relats de George Saunders estan ambientats

Following his superb story collections Civilwarland in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (1999), as well as last year's novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Saunders reaffirms his sharp, surreal vision of contemporary, media-saturated life, but keeps most of the elements within his familiar bandwidth. In the sweetly acerbic "My Flamboyant Grandson," a family trip through Times Square is overwhelmed by pop-up advertisements. In "Jon," orphans get sold to a market research firm and become famous as "Tastemakers & Trendsetters" (complete with trading cards). "CommComm" concerns an air force PR flunky living with the restless souls of his parents while covering for a spiraling crisis at work. The more conventionally grounded stories are the most compelling: one lingers over a bad Christmas among Chicago working stiffs, another follows a pair of old Russian-Jewish women haunted by memories of persecution. Others collapse under the weight of too much wit (the title story especially), and a few are little more than exercises in patience ("93990," "My Amendment"). But Saunders's vital theme—the persistence of humanity in a vacuous, nefarious marketing culture of its own creation—comes through with subtlety and fresh turns.

A new collection of stories and the best work yet from the accclaimed and mind-bendingly hilarious George Saunders, the writer fast-becoming the heir apparent to Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut. George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a devoted cult-following with his first two story collections and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. With his new book, In Persuasion Nation, Saunders ups the ante in every way, and is poised to break out to a wide new audience. The stories in In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. The Red Bow, about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and Bohemians, the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublished work and stories that first appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. The stories in this volume work together as a whole whose impact far exceeds the simple sum of its parts. Fans of Saunders know and love him for his sharp and hilarious satirical eye. But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing. Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest and most consoling cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise. In Persuasion Nation's sophistication and populism should establish Saunders once and for all as this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humor in a time when we need it most.

Man Booker Prize 2017.Una emotiva historia de fantasmas sobre la pérdida, el dolor y la familia.Febrero de 1862. En medio de la sangrienta guerra civil que divide al país en dos, el hijo de doce años del presidente Lincoln esta gravemente enfermo. En cuestion de pocos dias, el pequeño Willie muere y su cuerpo es trasladado hasta un cementerio en Georgetown. Los periodicos de la epoca recogen a un Lincoln deshecho por la pena que visita la tumba en varias ocasiones para guardar el cuerpo de su hijo. A partir de este hecho historico, Saunders despliega una historia inolvidable sobre el amor y la perdida que se adentra en el territorio de lo sobrenatural, alli donde tiene cabida desde lo terrorifico hasta lo hilarante. Willie Lincoln se halla en un estado intermedio entre la vida y la muerte, el llamado Bardo segun la tradicion tibetana. En este limbo, donde los fantasmas se reunen para compadecerse y reirse de lo que dejaron atras, una lucha de dimensiones titanicas surge de lo mas profundo del alma del pequeño Willie.

A gapper is a bit of a 'burr' but it is a dangerous thing. When it attaches itself to the goats the goats become very unhappy and even stop giving milk. There is nothing gappers like more than goats and nothing goats hate more than gappers. When gappers get your goats it means trouble. In one small town gappers are a real pest and it takes the ingenious approach of Capable to find a soution - if a solution exists at all.

he long-awaited 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 unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedFebruary 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 returns, alone, to the crypt several times 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 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 monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?

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 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak "Yuman" by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children's bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after "danjer" arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack.Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called "the writer for our time."

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 hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Bizarre but familiar, fierce but always humane, these are stunningly original stories by a master of the form. "Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed". (Zadie Smith). "He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him". (Jonathan Franzen). "There is no-one better, no-one more essential". (Dave Eggers).