For their health, they claim, they have been confined to sick-boxes (coffins) and must lie next to sick-forms (corpses), but they are certain they will eventually recover and go back to “that other place” to rejoin their loved ones.Īfter all, they have things to do. There are 166 of them narrating the book by turns, and few of them are willing to admit they are dead.
The ghosts are all residents of the Bardo, the in-between space of Tibetan Buddhism: post-life, pre-afterlife. Lincoln in the Bardo takes place after death, but before the afterlife This sweet-natured longform work is a new direction for Saunders, the satirical short-story writer - but it’s a fruitful one. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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