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Gilgamesh: A Novel
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Gilgamesh: A Novel
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It is 1937, and the modern world is waiting to erupt. On a farm in rural Australia, seventeen-year-old Edith lives with her mother and sister, Frances. One afternoon two men, her English cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram, arrive—taking the long way home from an archaeological dig in Iraq—to captivate Edith with tales of a world far beyond the narrow horizon of her small town of Nunderup. One such story is the epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient Mesopotamian king who traveled the world in search of eternal life. Two years later, in 1939, Edith and her young son, Jim, set off on their own journey, to Soviet Armenia, where they are trapped by the outbreak of war. Gilgamesh is a rich, spare, and evocative novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, a debut novel that marks the emergence of a world-class talent.I purchased this book specifically for the Debut Swap at BookObsessed. It was won by Morsecode, and I'll send it along to her after I've read it. |
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Released 1 yr ago (3/30/2011 UTC) at University at Buffalo South Campus in Buffalo, New York USA WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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