The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Original title: The noonday cemetery and other stories

earliest edition we have, 2003 New Directions, 2003 281 pages

"The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories, selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, contains thirteen stories spanning the last twenty years of his life." "In "The Noonday Cemetery," an eerie graveyard on an Italian hillside overlooks the sea and hides the secrets of a murder (or suicide?). "Beata, Santa," Herling's critique of the Pope's abortion stance, raised the ire of the Catholic Church when...

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Bill Johnston 1 printing we hold · 2006 · New Directions

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The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories paperback · 2006 · New Directions · 256 pages · 9780811216395
The noonday cemetery and other stories edition · 2003 · New Directions · 281 pages

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