A masterpiece novel in the progressive genre of transrealism: most of the events take place in the bardo - a borderline place-state between life and death (in Buddhism). Saunders, a brilliant master of the short form, has written a tragic family story with a supernatural atmosphere, defying all genre conventions. Heir to Edgar Poe and Herman Melville, Saunders combined poetry and historical reality in Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the real-life incident of an American president and his young son. This novel will truly take you beyond reality. The book contains obscene language.