Liberation Day: From 'the world's best short story writer' (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize

George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, exploring ideas of power, ethics, and justice. The stories are wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned, challenging and surprising. The collection includes "Love Letter," "Ghoul," "Mothers Day," and "Elliott Spencer," which explore themes of love, morality, and reality. The only way to experience Saunders's oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in, as it is worth it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

One of the most exceptional science fiction short stories to be published in the twenty-first century thus far, SFX Review states. 'Saunders is as witty and compassionate as ever, and his narrative prowess places him among the finest. Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling. i paper 'A joy. Effortlessly stylish, funny, and smart, Daily Mail states. ____________ The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times -bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 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 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December. The best short story writer in English (Time) 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. 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 Mothers Day, two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle.

Weight: 182g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526624994