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7645177Vigilhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/vigil-9798217290192/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7272265/image.jpg?v=638887563828470000387387MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong>A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of <em>Lincoln in the Bardo</em>, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.</strong></p><p>Not for the first time, Jill Doll Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.</p><p>She has performed this sacred duty three hundred and forty-three times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isnt like the others: The powerful K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it. Isnt it?</p><p><em>Vigil</em> transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of an epic, complicated life. Crowds of people and animalsworldly and otherworldly, alive and deadarrive, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying mans room, a black calf grazes on the loveseat, a man from a distant drought-ravaged village materializes, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boones post-death future.</p><p>With the acuity and explosive imagination weve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our timethe menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progressand, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.</p>...7253376Vigil387387https://www.gandhi.com.mx/vigil-9798217290192/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7272265/image.jpg?v=638887563828470000InStockMXN99999PR_DIAudiolibro20269798217290192_W3siaWQiOiIzYTM5OWIxMC04YjhkLTQ4YjAtODFlZC0yOTA1Yzg5NGZlYWMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM4NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6Mzg3LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wNy0xNlQwMzowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOnRydWUsImlzRWxpZ2libGVGb3JDcmVkaXRUcmlhbCI6dHJ1ZSwiY3JlZGl0UHVyY2hhc2VQcmljZSI6MX1d9798217290192_<p>An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.</p>...(*_*)9798217290192_<p><strong>A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of <em>Lincoln in the Bardo</em>, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.</strong></p><p>Not for the first time, Jill Doll Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.</p><p>She has performed this sacred duty three hundred and forty-three times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isnt like the others: The powerful K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it. Isnt it?</p><p><em>Vigil</em> transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of an epic, complicated life. Crowds of people and animalsworldly and otherworldly, alive and deadarrive, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying mans room, a black calf grazes on the loveseat, a man from a distant drought-ravaged village materializes, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boones post-death future.</p><p>With the acuity and explosive imagination weve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our timethe menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progressand, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.</p>...9798217290192_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_9798217290192_9798217290192George SaundersInglésMéxico2026-01-27T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2026-01-27T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group