{"product_id":"liberation-day","title":"Liberation Day","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Lincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and National Book Award finalist \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e The 'best short story writer in English' (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. '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. And 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 reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: UK, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 256\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Language: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9781526624963\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 1526624966\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43804731900170,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781526624963.jpg?v=1667029109","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/liberation-day","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}