- Social life and customs, Cemeteries, Civil engineers, Fiction
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.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Andrew Miller
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781444724257
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