![]() ![]() ![]() “You are a wave that has crashed upon the shore,” they are told by browbeating angels who visit intermittently, but they refuse to listen. As in The Sixth Sense and other movies and television shows, the ghosts imagined by Saunders linger in our world because they either don’t know they’re dead or aren’t yet resigned to leaving. Or rather, it takes place in the “bardo,” a term that Saunders has borrowed from Buddhism for what might be called the “justafterlife”-the interval between a ghost’s separation from its body and its departure for whatever comes next. George Saunders’s new novel-his first, after four collections of short stories and a novella-takes place in the afterlife. ![]()
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