Booker prize winner George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) returns with his latest novel Vigil. It's a rollercoaster ride, and a bedside tale, of sorts, as Jill "Doll" Blaine plummets towards earth to take charge of the latest soul she must usher into the afterlife, that of oil tycoon K J Boone.
At once playful and profound, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time: capitalism and corporate greed, the environmental consequences of progress and the question of absolution.
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