Somebody is walking on your grave : my cemetery journeys / Mariana Enriquez ; translated by Megan McDowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enriquez, Mariana, Author.

Contributor:

McDowell, Megan, translator.

Standardized Title:

Alguien camina sobre tu tumba. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/bd2cb068-4150-2d41-2a96-ca96903fd5f7

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Enriquez, Mariana--Travel.

Enriquez, Mariana.

Cemeteries--Anecdotes.

Cemeteries.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 312 pages : ill. ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Hogarth, 2025.

Summary:

"Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books. Mariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She visits them frequently on her travels around the world, a goth flaneur among the headstones "where dying seems much more interesting than being alive." But when the body of a friend's mother who was disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship is found in a common grave, Enriquez begins to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries and where our bodies come to rest. Travel with Enriquez as she journeys across North and South America, Europe and Australia, visiting Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's above-ground mausoleums, the opulent Recoleta in her hometown of Buenos Aires, and beyond. Enriquez investigates each cemetery's history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its caretakers and visitors, and, of course, its dead. Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, personal photographs, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through Enriquez's passion for cemeteries, revealing as much about her own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and startling as the fiction for which she's become so beloved and admired"--Provided by publisher

Contents:

Death and the Maiden (Genoa, Italy)

Malacara (Chubut, Argentina)

Every hour wounds; the last one kills (San Sebastián, Basque Country)

A bar in Broome (Rottnest Island, West Australia, Australia)

The most beautiful cemetery in the world (Punta Arenas, Chile)

No one dies here (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)

The moon over Bourbon Street (New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

Black dogs (Guadalajara, Mexico)

A Headless Dominican (Lima, Peru)

Gothic Green (Frankfurt, Germany)

Salt statues (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)

The absent girl (Savannah, Georgia, United States)

Crystal roses (Havana, Cuba)

The secret commonwealth (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)

A Victorian afterworld (London, England, United Kingdom)

Like a queen in chains (Prague, Czech Republic)

Stone upon stone (Entre Ríos, Argentina)

A bone from the innocents (Paris, France)

The kiss (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

The apparition of Marta Angélica (La Reja, Argentina)

Death on display ( Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Notes:

"Originally published in Spain as Alguien camina sobre tu tumba by Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain in 2021"--Title page verso

Other Format:

Online version Enriquez, Mariana. Somebody is walking on your grave.

ISBN:

9780593733516

0593733517

OCLC:

1534573791