WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (2011)
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests.
A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...
A year unlike any other he has lived.Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
- ISBN10 1445869594
- ISBN13 9781445869599
- Publish Date 3 September 2012 (first published 9 June 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Paragon
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English