The Empire of the Dead Pam Meredith there is an urgent need

there is an urgent need to re-think it for contemporary times

War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war

he struggles for material survival

it is possible to feel good again

author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatSixty years ago

The Empire of the Dead Pam Meredith there is an urgent needIn the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for peoplebut at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice. Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to 'first principles'the 'initial euphoria, the falling in love' that led him to consider a