SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 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.
