Between crime and punishment: Stylistically, Vigil retains George Saunders’s signature tonal volatility - Telegraph India
Book: VIGILAuthor: George SaundersADVERTISEMENTPublished by: BloomsburyPrice: Rs 699Vigil returns to the haunted territory George Saunders mapped so memorably in Lincoln in the Bardo. But where Lincoln in the Bardo braided private grief with national catastrophe, Vigil fixes its gaze on a solitary, contemporary villain, K.J. The reader’s moral footing shifts. Stylistically, Vigil retains Saunders’s signature tonal volatility. Unfortunately, Vigil does not achieve the emotional amplitude of Lincoln in the Bardo.
Source: The Telegraph February 27, 2026 15:34 UTC
