Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst #literature cunning and ruthless

cunning and ruthless

they realise how little they knew about her

and betraying her the next - threatening to shatter her family and sever the thread of fate that binds her to her true love

humanity and the earth itself will perish

she draws on its revolutionary and bohemian history while sounding issues of the most contemporary urgency about hospitality and refuge

Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst #literature cunning and ruthlessAn arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the catacombs and columbaria of Rome and the cenotaphs erected to the worlds war dead are but some of the answers. In inimitable style, Roger Luckhurst probes the often moving, sometimes contested ways in which people throughout history have responded to the problem