Description

‘Very funny … With Fox 8, Saunders does something one might, in isolation, think it almost impossible for a book to do, which is to resensitise the reader to violence’ Guardian

An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children’s bedtime stories, he has learned to speak ‘Yuman’.

The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is ‘danjur’ on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pack’s food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.

Publisher Review

Warm, kindhearted and radical ... Such delicacy, such serious wit -- Max Porter Filled with wit and sadness ... Immensely powerful, extraordinarily human * Guardian * George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time -- Khaled Hosseini A morally passionate, serious writer ... He will be read long after these times have passed -- Zadie Smith He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him -- Jonathan Franzen An astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny -- Thomas Pynchon Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice ... Scary, hilarious and unforgettable -- Tobias Wolff There is no one better, no one more essential -- Dave Eggers Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does -- Junot Diaz Saunders is a true original - restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane -- Jennifer Egan No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times * Surreal and puncturing -- Margaret Atwood Funny, poignant - in flashes, deeply moving - light as a feather and consistently weird -- Hari Kunzru There is really no one like him. He is an original - but everyone knows that -- Lorrie Moore Part of the reason it's so hard to talk about him is the shared acknowledgment among writers that Saunders is somehow a little more than just a writer. . . . [He] writes like something of a saint. He seems in touch with some better being -- Joshua Ferris