The book of essays and short stories in the style of a detective thriller "Cemetery Stories" is composed of six independent chapters, each of which is dedicated to one of the most famous and mysterious cemeteries in the world:Donskoy Cemetery (Moscow)< p>Highgate Cemetery (London)Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)Green-Wood Cemetery (New York)Foreign Cemetery (Yokohama)< /p>The Cemetery of the Patriarchs on the Mount of Olives (Jerusalem)Each of the chapters, in turn, is divided into two fragments that are heterogeneous in style and genre: a documentary essay, whose author should be considered Grigory Chkhartishvili , and a fictional detective story written by the "hand" of Boris Akunin. Thus, the book is, as it were, the fruit of collective creativity, equal co-authorship of two writers - real and fictional. ...I wrote this book for a long time, one or two pieces a year. This is not a topic to fuss about, and even then there was a feeling that this was not just a book, but a certain path that I needed to go through, and it was not worth jumping around here - you could miss a turn with a running start and go astray. Sometimes I felt that it was time to stop, to wait for the next signal calling further.This road turned out to be as long as five years. It started from the wall of the old Moscow cemetery and took me very, very far. During this time, much has changed, “I myself, subject to the general law, have changed” - I split into reasoner Grigory Chkhartishvili and entertainer Boris Akunin, so that the book was already being completed by two: the first was engaged in essayistic fragments, the second fiction. I also found out that I am a tafophile, “a lover of cemeteries” - it turns out that such an exotic hobby exists in the world (and some even have a mania). But I can only be called a tafophile conditionally - I did not collect cemeteries and graves, I was occupied with the Mystery of the Past Time: where does it go and what happens to the people who inhabited it? .. © B. Akunin © ℗ Empire of Sound LLC 2006© ℗ IP Vorobyov V.A. V.A.© ℗ ID SOYUZ

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