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cover of The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta
BOOKS
The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Photographs by Peter Kayafas, Epitaph translations by Adrian G. Sahlean and essay by Sanda Golopentia. New York : Purple Martin Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9797768-0-9. 47 plates; 120 pages. Limited Edition: $45.00
Designed by the celebrated Dutch designer Tessa van der Waals and exquisitely produced in Holland , the first publication of the Purple Martin Press, The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, brings an extraordinary Romanian treasure to an international audience. This bilingual edition of photographs of the carved graves elegantly presents this unusual and remote place in all its primitive splendor and preserves the humor, tragedy and humanity of the memorials and their respective epitaphs.
View photographs from the book on Peter Kayafas’s web site
www.peterkayafas.com/sapanta