Vigil: From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
Autor George Saundersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 ian 2026
'The first must-read book of the year' Vogue
'Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age' Independent
'One of America's most distinguished and original writers' Spectator
Order the latest book from the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo - a playful, wise, electric novel 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
What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward. . .
Not for the first time - in fact, for the 343rd time - Jill 'Doll' Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others.
For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it. isn't it?
As death approaches, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors arrive. Crowds of people and animals - alive and dead - materialise, birds swarm the dying man's room, and associates from decades past show up, all clamouring for a reckoning.
In this electric novel brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, spinning a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the inevitable question: who else could we be but exactly who we are?
Vigil was no. 10 in the Sunday Times Hardback Fiction chart and no. 1 in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction chart, w/e 1 February
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526624307
ISBN-10: 1526624303
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526624303
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
A wild ride through recent history, otherworldly reunions and good and evil - suitably big themes for one of America's most distinguished and original writers
A tender morality tale . intrigue thrums everywhere
The first must-read book of the year
Faulkner meets Citizen Kane... such is Saunders' skill and empathetic imagination that the questions raised by his concocted other world... generally prove more mysterious than mystifying
Staggering... Saunders has outdone himself with this endlessly irreverent work of art
Vigil. moves into even more anarchic and funny territory than that 2017 Booker-winning masterpiece with this new novel's unhinged spirits and pitiful ghosts. a meditation on the manipulative nature of modern language. resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age
A magnificent expansion of consciousness... Saunders has crafted a novel that feels deeply resonant, especially in these fractious times
Exquisitely strange and beautiful, devastating, and so, so funny. Nobody but George Saunders writes like this
With acuity and explosive imagination, Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time: the menace of corporate greed
An imaginative, highly entertaining homage to A Christmas Carol
George Saunders, has produced his own riff on the story of George Bailey. Like Capra's film, Vigil is a superbly wrought bit of sentimental fantasy that shades gradually into something darker and more troubling
The prose zips with the author's trademark wisecracks and quick-fire repartee . at a time when doomsayers predict the demise of the novel - destined, supposedly, to be seen off by glitzier distractions and dwindling attention spans - Mr Saunders has a recipe for fiction's survival, as well as a rationale for reading it. Finding new ways to tell stories with words on a page, his work nudges forward the boundaries of the form. He powers his empathy machine with restless invention
He writes in a way that is so engaging and beautiful ... so immersive and incredible but also brutal
He boils down this vast global problem to an emotion ... he has an enormous empathy that extends to all sorts of people
Anyone familiar with Saunders's work - either Lincoln or his several books of tragicomic short stories that preceded it - will know to expect something unusual, and he doesn't disappoint
Formidable. The sentences snap and pivot; jokes arrive, then suddenly float into a colder register. He can turn celestial paperwork into something like tragedy ... a theatrical moral fable
Elegant and witty ... Vigil is a finely crafted novel that explores comfort, repentance, and the path to redemption, which must be sought again and again
Brimming with the compassion and insight that has won Saunders legion of fans, it eschews caricature in favour of profound empathy ... it's also funny and vivid and populated with endearing nutcases
It's an extraordinary book; the work of a modern master with a full-spectrum understanding of fantastic fiction
Shares hilarity with sadness and meditates on redemption - or, more pertinently, a lack of it ... demands more than a single read
Vintage Saunders
This century's Vonnegut . we will be reading it again and again - and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know...
A tender morality tale . intrigue thrums everywhere
The first must-read book of the year
Faulkner meets Citizen Kane... such is Saunders' skill and empathetic imagination that the questions raised by his concocted other world... generally prove more mysterious than mystifying
Staggering... Saunders has outdone himself with this endlessly irreverent work of art
Vigil. moves into even more anarchic and funny territory than that 2017 Booker-winning masterpiece with this new novel's unhinged spirits and pitiful ghosts. a meditation on the manipulative nature of modern language. resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age
A magnificent expansion of consciousness... Saunders has crafted a novel that feels deeply resonant, especially in these fractious times
Exquisitely strange and beautiful, devastating, and so, so funny. Nobody but George Saunders writes like this
With acuity and explosive imagination, Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time: the menace of corporate greed
An imaginative, highly entertaining homage to A Christmas Carol
George Saunders, has produced his own riff on the story of George Bailey. Like Capra's film, Vigil is a superbly wrought bit of sentimental fantasy that shades gradually into something darker and more troubling
The prose zips with the author's trademark wisecracks and quick-fire repartee . at a time when doomsayers predict the demise of the novel - destined, supposedly, to be seen off by glitzier distractions and dwindling attention spans - Mr Saunders has a recipe for fiction's survival, as well as a rationale for reading it. Finding new ways to tell stories with words on a page, his work nudges forward the boundaries of the form. He powers his empathy machine with restless invention
He writes in a way that is so engaging and beautiful ... so immersive and incredible but also brutal
He boils down this vast global problem to an emotion ... he has an enormous empathy that extends to all sorts of people
Anyone familiar with Saunders's work - either Lincoln or his several books of tragicomic short stories that preceded it - will know to expect something unusual, and he doesn't disappoint
Formidable. The sentences snap and pivot; jokes arrive, then suddenly float into a colder register. He can turn celestial paperwork into something like tragedy ... a theatrical moral fable
Elegant and witty ... Vigil is a finely crafted novel that explores comfort, repentance, and the path to redemption, which must be sought again and again
Brimming with the compassion and insight that has won Saunders legion of fans, it eschews caricature in favour of profound empathy ... it's also funny and vivid and populated with endearing nutcases
It's an extraordinary book; the work of a modern master with a full-spectrum understanding of fantastic fiction
Shares hilarity with sadness and meditates on redemption - or, more pertinently, a lack of it ... demands more than a single read
Vintage Saunders
This century's Vonnegut . we will be reading it again and again - and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know...