The release date for the English version of 'Liberation Day: Stories' by
George Saunders is Oct 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
New York Times Bestselling • "Pitch-perfect, genre-bending tales that peer into the depths of our national character... from one of our most imaginative providers of the form returns. A brilliant piece of writing by an author with an immense reach.— Oprah Magazine
With his first collection of short tales since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December, Booker Prize winner George Saunders makes a comeback.
A BOOK AMONG THE BEST OF THE The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, and NPR
The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a brilliant collection that delves deeply into the essence of what it means to live in a community with other people by examining concepts of justice, power, and ethics. A collection of kaleidoscopic, powerful tales that embrace joy and misery, oppression and revolution, odd imagination and terrible reality, is presented here. Saunders continues to push readers with his hallmark style, which is wickedly humorous, unsentimental, and perfectly calibrated.
In the middle of a dystopian political scenario in the (not too distant, all too plausible) future, "Love Letter" is a heartfelt letter from grandpa to grandson that serves as a gentle reminder of our duties to our beliefs, ourselves, and one another. "Ghoul" is a story about the adventures of a lonely, morally sophisticated individual called Brian who begins to doubt everything he takes for granted about his world. The story takes place in a Hell-themed area of an underground amusement park in Colorado. on the midst of a hailstorm, two ladies who shared a love for the same guy on "Mother's Day" had an existential crisis. The eighty-nine-year-old protagonist of "Elliott Spencer" is indoctrinated and has had his memory "scraped" as a result of a plot in which weak, impoverished individuals are reprogrammed and used as political protestors. And in only seven pages, "My House" confronts the unsettling quality of unmet expectations and the certainty of deterioration.
When taken as a whole, these nine fascinating, provocative, and indispensable tales provide a compelling argument for having the same open-mindedness and dispassionate observation of the world that Saunders does—even in the most ridiculous situations.