Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave :My Cemetery Journeys
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave :My Cemetery Journeys
hardback
Published:
25 September, 2025
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781803511290 |
| ISBN10 | 180351129X |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Granta Books |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is part-travelogue, part-memoir, part-history, myth and legend. Even readers who lack her taste for the macabre will be enticed by Enriquez's infectious enthusiasm for her subject... [A] highly original book * Financial Times *
Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstones, dank crypts, and chilling history -- Joe Hill
Enríquez, when she does just enough, is pretty much unbeatable -- A.K. Blakemore
Enriquez's talent and fearlessness is something to behold * Financial Times *
Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life * Observer *
One of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
Full of dark romanticism, teasing the reader in a kind of danse macabre... A fascinating and provocative rendering of the stories of the dead and those who tend to them * The Skinny *
Offers longtime readers a glimpse of Enriquez herself - funny, passionate, and sharp, a friend accompanying you through the dark * Cold Magazine *
Enriquez's interest in graves is not just morbid. She uses cemeteries as a lens through which to examine history and culture... After finishing her book, readers will have a new appreciation for tombs and the wealth of fascinating stories that lie six feet under * Economist *
Enriquez does a good job of conjuring up cemeteries in all their variety... This material might seem morbid, but the narrative remains playful, and the translation by Megan McDowell captures the book's chatty tone and self-aware humour * TLS *
Fascinating... Enriquez's book is in the style of a travel-writing pilgrimage, but is also part memoir with digressions into myths, legends, saints and ghosts, often with surprising laconic humour * Irish Times *
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Author's Bio
Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela, and A Sunny Place for Shady People. Megan McDowell has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.