Lincoln in the Bardo
👓 Saunders G.Lincoln in the Bardo
✅ WINNER OF THE MAN 👤👨 BOOKER 📚️ PRIZE 🏆️ 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣.The extraordinary first 🥇 novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize 🏆️-winning 🏆️, National Book 📚️ Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and ➕ the death 💀 of his 👤👨⬅️ eleven year old 🧓 son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.The American 🇺🇸 Civil War rages 😡 while President Lincoln' 's beloved eleven-year-old 🧓 son lies 🤥 gravely ill 🤒. In a matter of days, Willie dies ☠️ and ➕ is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers 📰 report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns ↪️ to the crypt several times ⏱️ alone to hold 👫 hi 👤👨⬅️ 👦's boy's body.From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial 👨👩👦 love ❤️ and ➕ loss that breaks 💔 free 🆓 of realism, entering ➡️🚪 a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and ➕ terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds 🔎 himself trapped in a transitional realm - called 📞, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and ➕ as ghosts 👻 mingle, squabble, gripe and ➕ commiserate, and ➕ stony tendrils creep towards the boy 👦, a monumental struggle erupts over young 👶...