![]() ![]() “There was this juxtaposition of the very personal tragedy of Abraham Lincoln with his public life, as the person who’d really instigated the American Civil War.” “This really stood out because of its innovation - its very different styling and the way in which it paradoxically brought to life these not-quite-dead souls in this other world,” said Baroness Lola Young, chair of this year’s Booker Prize judging panel. The novel’s narration switches from ghost to ghost with little warning, and there are so many ghosts - 166, to be exact - that this is at first bewildering and disorienting and then becomes an exhilarating delight. ![]() Lincoln in the Bardo tells the story of those visits, from the point of view of the ghosts who haunt the graveyard in which Willie is buried. ![]() 166 ghosts tell the story of Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders’s fantastic first novel ![]()
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