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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

By Mariana Enriquez

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave Death & Mourning

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

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In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures - Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London - mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead.
From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2025-09-25
Publication Date:
2025-10-31
Publisher:
Granta Publications
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
180351129X
ISBN13:
9781803511290
Weight:
534 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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