JERUSALEM, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Volunteers helped gravediggers at Israel's main military cemetery on Wednesday as burials began for soldiers slain in the assault on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the ...

Every day for four years, lorries arrived – sometimes under the cover of darkness, other times in broad daylight. They carried up to 100 bodies, some in body bags, others still wearing civilian ...

The town of Bucha lived in relative obscurity on the international stage until early spring when Russian occupying forces retreated from the town and left behind devastation and death that shocked ...

It became known as the Winter of Discontent. A strike by council gravediggers in Liverpool caused national outrage as dead bodies piled up. Denise Lowes, whose father Ian was one of the organisers ...

The graves are dug in the morning. Four plots, each two meters deep in the section of a cemetery in a central Ukrainian city devoted to the nation's fallen soldiers. The day begins for Oleh ...

As the gravediggers take a short break, an eerie silence fills the air, only to be broken by the croak of a raven that has landed on one of the tombstones. The graveyard is empty bar two elderly ...

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild. By Mathias Énard. Translated by Frank Wynne. Fitzcarraldo Editions; 496 pages; £16.99. To be published in America by New Directions in December ...

Set between the 16th and 22nd centuries, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a work of political comedy, fixated on class, climate, food, wine, and the afterlife. Set between the ...

Mathias Énard’s new novel, “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” considers the jumble of life in a variety of stories and styles. By Martin Riker Martin Riker’s most recent ...