Liberation Day : Stories
Knihu kúpite v
1 e-shope
od
26,07 €
Ak sa vám po kliknutí na tlačidlo "Do obchodu" nezobrazí stránka knihy vo vybranom e-shope, je potrebné vypnúť AdBlock vo vašom prehliadači pre našu stránku.
Návod na vypnutie je napríklad na adrese https://www.sme.sk/dok/20466299/ako-vypnut-adblock-na-sme-sk-whitelist.
Krátky popis
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 exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to
challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, 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, all too believable)
future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals,
ourselves, and one another. “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 “Mother’s Day,” two women who loved the same man come
to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In
“Elliott Spencer,” our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds
himself brainwashed, his memory “scraped”—a victim of a scheme in
which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as
political protesters. And “My House”—in a mere seven pages—comes to
terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the
inevitability of decay. Together, these nine subversive, profound,
and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world
with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does,
even in the most absurd of circumstances.
Výber kníh autora
George Saunders
Zobraziť všetky knihy autora
George Saunders
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Random House Group
Zobraziť všetky knihy vydavateľa
Random House Group
Naše tipy
