Bardo or Not Bardo
ISBN-13: 9781940953335
Author(s): Antoine Volodine
Subjects: FBC, FYT
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 21-04-2016
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
In each of these seven vignettes, someone dies and has to make their way through the Tibetan afterlife, also known as the Bardo. In the Bardo, souls wander for forty-nine days before being reborn, helped along on their journey by the teachings of the Book of the Dead. Unfortunately, Volodine's characters bungle their chances at enlightenment, with the recently dead choosing to waste away their afterlife sleeping, crying in empty bars or choosing to be reborn as an insignificant spider. And the still-living aren't much better off, making a mess of things too.