Anders Lustgarten is a playwright and novelist. He won the Catherine Johnson Award for A Day at the Racists and won the Harold Pinter Playwriting Award for If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep. His play Lampedusa has been performed in forty countries. Prior to becoming a writer, Anders was an international 400m runner and a teacher of people on death row in California. Three Burials is his debut novel.
A heady mixture of murder mystery, black comedy, and an introspection on what makes us human. As an added bonus, the whole amazing story is built on an expert analysis of the state of the British economy and society -- Ha-Joon Chang, SOAS University of London, author of 'Edible Economics' Three Burials is a romp of a novel. It tackles subjects like police violence and irregular migration without proselytising, painting a vivid picture of how the myriad ways we love one another counteract interpersonal and state violence -- Gracie Mae Bradley, author of 'Against Borders' Anders Lustgarten is one of the important political writers of his generation -- Dennis Kelly A fierce writer whose activism blends intellectual curiosity and idealism * Evening Standard *