About the Book: Lincoln in the Bardo: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
A No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017
'It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force
Sunday Times.
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 Lincolns beloved eleven-year-old
son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and