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LEADER: 01900nam a22003618i 4500
001 2015038414
003 DLC
005 20151119083241.0
008 151118s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015038414
020 $a9781940953335 (paperback)
020 $a1940953332 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hfre
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPQ2682.O436$bB3713 2016
082 00 $a843/.914$223
084 $aFIC019000$aREL007050$aFAM014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aVolodine, Antoine,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBardo or not Bardo /$cby Antoine Volodine ; translated from the French by J. T. Mahany.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aRochester, NY :$bOpen Letter,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Takes place in his universe of failed revolutions, radical shamanism, and off-kilter nomenclature. In each of these seven vignettes, someone dies and has to make their way through the Tibetan afterlife, also known as the Bardo. In the Bardo, souls wander for forty-nine days before being reborn, helped along on their journey by the teachings of the Book of the Dead. Unfortunately, Volodine's characters bungle their chances at enlightenment, with the recently dead choosing to waste away their afterlife sleeping, or choosing to be reborn as an insignificant spider. The still-living aren't much better off, making a mess of things in their own ways, such as erroneously reciting a Tibetan cookbook to a lost comrade instead of the holy book"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aFuture life$vFiction.
650 0 $aBuddhism$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aRELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aMahany, J. T.,$etranslator.