Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh by Joan London


ISBN
9780330362757
Published
Binding
Paperback

A Novel.

'There were two of them, two young men, dressed alike in narrow-brimmed hats and black coats, longer and blacker than those Australians wore.'

Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-western corner of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are taking the long way home after working on an archaeological dig in Iraq. It is 1937. The modern world, they say, is waiting to erupt. Among the tales they tell is the story of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk in ancient Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh's great journey of mourning after the death of his friend Enkidu, and his search for the secret of eternal life, is to resonate through all of their lives.

In 1939 Edith and her young son Jim set off on an impossible journey of their own, to Soviet Armenia, where they are trapped by the outbreak of war. The story of this journey is the story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance.

Moving between rural Australia, London, the Caucasus and the Middle East, from the last days of the First World War to the years following the Second, Joan London's stunning novel examines what happens when we strike out into the world, and how, like Gilgamesh, we find our way home.
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