“Lincoln in the Bardo,” won the Man Booker Prize

[Gene C]

this from today's NY Times about the author

"Mr. Saunders, a Tibetan Buddhist, drew on the Buddhist notion of the bardo — the phase of existence between death and rebirth — bringing a supernatural layer to the historical setting. With the chorus of ghosts in the cemetery, Mr. Saunders tied Lincoln’s suffering to a universal human plight of mortality and loss, giving it an epic, mythical quality.

“For me, the book was about that terrible conundrum: We seem to be born to love, but everything we love comes to an end,” Mr. Saunders said in an email interview with The New York Times Book Review. “What do we do with that?”

Well I guess we write a book.


Which of coarse reminds me of a song "As Time Goes By" (from the movie Casablanca). This version sung coincidently by George Sanders (not the writer, but the movie star from the 1940's, 50's and 60's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnXaBHNyr88