{"title":"George Saunders","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"liberation-day-stories","title":"Liberation Day: Stories","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCategories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e English, short stories, fiction, fantasy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 238\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover\u003c\/strong\u003e: softback \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBOOK DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41962404348086,"sku":"","price":695.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/products\/IMG-20221208-WA0031_b3493f24-9837-455e-8f42-8a40fc00b988.jpg?v=1670917586"},{"product_id":"a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain","title":"A Swim in a Pond in the Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/george-saunders\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/english\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e ,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/non-fiction\"\u003e Nonfiction\u003c\/a\u003e ,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/short-stories\"\u003e Short Stories\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: local\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCover: Softcover\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBook description :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Swim in a Pond in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Swim in a Pond in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037062955190,"sku":"","price":1110.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/53487237.jpg?v=1713812166"},{"product_id":"lincoln-in-the-bardo","title":"Lincoln in the Bardo","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/george-saunders\"\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBinding: SOFTBACK\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: HSTORICAL FICTION\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublisher: LOCAL\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 343\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e \u003cspan\u003eIn his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFebruary 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. \"My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,\" the president says at the time. \"God has called him home.\" Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44998531449014,"sku":null,"price":865.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/29906980_1.jpg?v=1774325835"},{"product_id":"tenth-of-december","title":"Tenth of December","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/george-saunders\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/lincoln-peirce\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eBinding: Softback\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/literature\"\u003eLiterature \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/english\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/romance\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/psychology\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003ePublisher: Local\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 152\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOne of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the taut opening, \"Victory Lap,\" a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In \"Home,\" a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title story, a stunning meditation on imagination, memory, and loss, a middle-aged cancer patient walks into the woods to commit suicide, only to encounter a troubled young boy who, over the course of a fateful morning, gives the dying man a final chance to recall who he really is. A hapless, deluded owner of an antique store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders' signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWriting brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. 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