A grieving man, sole survivor of the accident that killed his wife and daughter, drinks himself toward oblivion. Each night brings him closer to the edge of suicide until Joren, a wandering Mahatma, intervenes. This stranger possesses a terrible knowledge: he can teach the man to leave his body, to see beyond the veil of ordinary existence. What follows is a strange, dreamlike journey through a metaphysical landscape where the boundary between life and death grows thin. The man encounters a hare who speaks with the voice of countless suffering creatures, its memories a litany of cruelty endured at human hands. Together, they walk the Great White Road toward the eerie Gates that separate one existence from the next. Haggard, better known for pulpy adventures like King Solomon's Mines, crafted something far stranger here: a meditation on guilt, grief, and the possibility that death is not an ending but a door. The novel asks whether transcendence can heal a broken man, and whether the lessons of suffering might be worth learning at all.
