***WINNER OF THE 2018 AUDIE Honor FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR***

The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring non-e apart from Abraham Lincoln, aswell as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and lifeless, historical and invented

Feb 1862. The Civil War is significantly less than one year aged. The fighting has started in earnest, and the country offers begun to understand it is in for a long, bloody struggle. In the meantime, President about Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel Lincoln’s much loved eleven-year-old boy, Willie, is situated upstairs in the White colored House, gravely ill. In just a matter of times, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest within a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor guy, he was as well good for this globe,” the chief executive says at the time. “God provides called him home.” Newspapers statement that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt many times to carry his boy’s body.

From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial like and loss that breaks free from its realistic, historical framework right into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself within a strange purgatory where spirits mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre serves of penance. Within this transitional state-called, in the Tibetan custom, the bardo-a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of creativity and a bold step forward from one of the very most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, good in soul, deeply concerned with matters from the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders offers invented an exciting new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to request a timeless, serious question: Just how do we live and love when we understand that everything we love must end?

The 166-person full cast features award-winning actors and music artists, and a amount of Saunders’ family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, to be able of their appearance:

Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN

David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III

Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS

George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS

Miranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD

Lena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR

Ben Stiller as JACK MANDERS

Julianne Moore as JANE ELLIS

Susan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS

Bradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE

Costs Hader as EDDIE BARON

Megan Mullally as BETSY BARON

Rainn Wilson as PERCIVAL “DASH” COLLIER

Jeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE

Kat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE

Jeffrey Tambor as PROFESSOR EDMUND BLOOMER

Mike O’Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX

Keegan-Michael Crucial as ELSON FARWELL

Don Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS

and

Patrick Wilson as STANLEY “PERFESSER” LIPPERT

with

Kirby Heyborne as WILLIE LINCOLN,

Mary Karr as MRS. ROSE MILLAND,

and Cassandra Campbell as Your Narrator

Praise for the audiobook

“Lincoln in the Bardo’ pieces a new regular for ensemble recordings in it is structure, in it is performances, and in it is boldness. Now, let’s discover who answers the task.” – Chicago Tribune

“Like the book, the audiobook breaks new surface in what can be accomplished through a story. It can help that there’s not a single bad notice in the solid of an impressive 166 people. It’s also the uncommon phenomenon of the audiobook being a completely different experience compared to the novel. Actually if you’ve browse the novel, the audiobook will probably be worth a listen (and vice versa). The complete task pushes the narrative type forwards.” – A.V. Golf club

“The effect can be an auditory knowledge unlike any other, where the awareness of individual voices disappears while the cautiously calibrated soundscape summons a metaphysical masterpiece. This is a tour de force of audiobook creation, and a dazzling realization of Saunders’ exclusive authorial structure.”-Booklist

“The completed audiobook’s tapestry of voices flawlessly mirrors the book.”-Entertainment Weekly

Compliment for George Saunders

“No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised.”-Michiko Kakutani, THE BRAND NEW York Times

“Saunders enables you to feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.”-Khaled Hosseini

“Few people trim as hard or deep as Saunders does.”-Junot Díaz

“George Saunders can be a complete unique. There is absolutely no one better, no one more necessary to our national sense of self and sanity.”-Dave Eggers

“Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”-Zadie Smith

“There is absolutely no one like him. He’s an original-but everyone understands that.”-Lorrie Moore

“George Saunders makes the all-but-impossible appearance effortless. We’re lucky to possess him.”-Jonathan Franzen

“An astoundingly tuned voice-graceful, dark, genuine, and funny-telling simply the types of stories we need to get us through these times.”-Thomas Pynchon