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Yesterday, george saunders won the man booker prize for lincoln in the bardo. Lincoln in the bardo, the writers first novel, is a stunning depiction of the sixteenth presidents psyche. The tibetan title of the fourteenthcentury text published in 1927 as the tibetan book of the dead is bardo todol, meaning liberation in the intermediate state through hearing. George saunders is the most lauded shortstory writer living today, revered in america to the point of canonisation. Lincoln in the bardo, the novel by george saunders, has become one of those books everyone is talking about. Saunders is better known for his short stories, reporting and occasional essays. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fictions ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Somehow, the whole thing together feels staged like.
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