![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo is the transitional state between death and rebirth. The first thing to consider is the meaning of that word in the title – ‘bardo’. I don’t always get on well with Booker novels and I wasn’t at all sure whether it was a good idea for me to read this book, but it sounded so unusual and intriguing that when I saw it in the library I couldn’t resist. The boy’s name is Willie Lincoln and his father is Abraham, the sixteenth President of the United States.Īccording to author George Saunders this is a true story, reported in contemporary news accounts at the time, and is what inspired him to write Lincoln in the Bardo, a novel which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Unable to accept that he has lost his beloved son, the boy’s father enters the crypt on several occasions to hold the body and grieve. After his death, he is interred in a crypt at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown. It’s February 1862 and an eleven-year-old boy is dying, probably of typhoid fever. ![]()
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