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Liberation Day
From ‘the world’s best short story writer’ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize
Liberation Day
From ‘the world’s best short story writer’ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize
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Description
'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 political dystopia and master of the modern short story, Liberation Day takes on ideas of power, ethics and justice, cutting to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans.
In a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park, a man is confronted with everything he has taken for granted about his reality. In coded emails, a grandfather advises his grandson on how to survive an autocratic regime. A political protestor for hire struggles to remember who he used to be.
These nine wickedly funny stories encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
'The only way to experience Saunders's oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in. It will take the top of your head off, but it's worth it' The Times
'The world's best short story writer … Liberation Day is great art' Daily Telegraph
Product details
| Published | 18 Oct 2022 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781526624970 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The world's best short story writer … Liberation Day is great art
DAILY TELEGRAPH
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My writerly friends will be getting George Saunders's Liberation Day, so we can laugh, and wince, and weep, and then pore over his sentences to see how he does it
RUTH OZEKI, GUARDIAN, Books of the year
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Moving and tragic and also funny and deeply human
NEW STATESMAN, Books of the Year 2022
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Here, the unnerving dystopia of the title story alone makes this collection, rich in wicked humour, acute observation and awkward emotion, a must-read
SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year – Chosen by Patricia Nicol
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A master of the short form … shrewd, truthful
IRISH TIMES, Best Books of 2022
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Short-story virtuoso George Saunders returned to the form with Liberation Day, tragicomic allegories of try-hard regular folk caught up in hells beyond their understanding
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