George Saunders


Vigil

Vigil av George Saunders

En berättelse om en dödskommenderad själs sista timmar, där livets och dödens komplexiteter utforskas genom möten med både levande och döda.

  • En fängslande berättelse om liv och död.

  • Utforskar teman som kapitalism och miljöhot.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2027.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-19

Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Random House US
ISBN: 9780525509646

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-19

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Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn’t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time—the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress—and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.


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