Lincoln in Bardo. Sonders J.

1862, the height of the Civil War in the United States.

But the thoughts of President Lincoln - with his eleven -year -old seriously ill son Willie. Despite the optimistic forecasts, the boy dies.

in Buddhism Bardo is a borderline state between life and death. So, Willie gets into a surrealistic limb, where the endless ghosts are digging and whispering

, and the boy is captured by what is happening in the intermary.

Retreating real historical facts, George Sonders created a truly brilliant novel , tragic, multi -ghost; Roman about the family,

eternity, fulfilled important questions about life, death and reality.