02078nam a22002177a 4500 20260130094732.0 220111b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781526602022 Aloy eng 23 813.54 SAUL George Saunders 253251 Lincoln in the Bardo London, 2021. Bloomsbury: xviii,341 p. PB 19x13 cm. General 4529 389.22 ₹ 499.00 22% 22-12-2021 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? American English Fiction 12873 Amrerican English Literature 12874 ddc BK 221144 221144 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN AL AL 2021-12-30 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 389.22 1 813.54 SAUL 075227 2022-04-01 00:00:00 2022-03-22 499.00 2021-12-22 BK