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Новая книга от мастера рассказа Джорджа Сондерса – одного из самых оригинальных и важных писателей своего поколения.
Честные и цепляющие истории о людях, которые нас окружают, задают важные вопросы о самой сущности нашего бытия – что делает нас добрыми и что делает нас человечными. Любовь, отчаяние, война, работа, секс и сознание – Сондерс с уникальной энергией описывает основы нашей реальности.
Смешные, странные и в чем-то даже чеховские, эти рассказы не только раскрывают необъяснимое, но и открываю дверь к человеческому сердцу.

Секреты литературы легко раскрыть — достаточно лишь перевернуть страницу. ЧЕХОВ. ТУРГЕНЕВ. ТОЛСТОЙ. ГОГОЛЬ. Семь рассказов известных русских писателей — семь эссе, которые Джордж Сондерс создал на основе курса, который вот уже много лет он читает в Сиракьюсском университете. «Когда читаешь этих авторов, они тебя меняют, а мир вокруг словно бы начинает излагать другую, гораздо более интересную, историю — историю, в какой можно сыграть значимую роль и где на читателя возложена ответственность», — пишет во вступлении сам Сондерс. Ведь изучать литературу — это изучать саму жизнь. «Слава великого русского романа огромна; великому русскому…

'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review
'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
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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 'Mother's Day', two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And 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.

Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

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'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

The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublished work, and stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. The stories in this volume work together as a whole whose impact far exceeds the simple sum of its parts. Fans of Saunders know and love him for his sharp and hilarious satirical eye. But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing.

Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest-and most consoling-cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise. In Persuasion Nation's sophistication and populism should establish Saunders once and for all as this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humor in a time when we need it most.

1862 год, разгар Гражданской войны в США. Но мысли президента Линкольна - с его одиннадцатилетним тяжелобольным сыном Уилли. Несмотря на оптимистичные прогнозы, мальчик умирает. В буддизме бардо - пограничное состояние между жизнью и смертью. Так, Уилли попадает в сюрреалистичный лимб, где роятся и шепчут бесконечные призраки, и мальчик оказывается захвачен происходящим в междумирье. Взяв за основу реальные исторические факты, Джордж Сондерс создал поистине гениальный роман, трагичный, многожанровый; роман о семье, вечности, исполненный важных вопросов о жизни, смерти и реальности.

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice.

Если бы американцы из будущего пожелали намекнуть нам, куда движется наша цивилизация, они могли бы, не тратя лишних слов, посоветовать почитать рассказы Джорджа Сондерса. Обитая в мире, с одной стороны, явно необычном, а с другой - до боли знакомом, персонажи Сондерса воплощают в жизнь наиболее абсурдные современные тенденции, позволяя нам увидеть себя в ином ракурсе - нелицеприятном и смешном. В этой книге вы обнаружите людей, которые живут и работают в искусственной пещере тематического парка, общаясь с родными исключительно по факсу. Познакомитесь с семьей, собравшейся у телевизора, любимого поставщика развлечений, чтобы посмотреть…

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer” arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack. Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom the New York Times called “the writer for our time.”

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders now surpasses his New York Times Notable Book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, with this bestselling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.
One of Entertainment Weekly’s Ten Best Books of the Year

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