The Leto Bundle

The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner


ISBN
9780701169206
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Dimensions
160 x 240 x 35mm

A Novel.

Full of mystery and myth, sensual writing and surprise, Marina Warner's compelling new novel keeps the reader guessing right up to the end . . . as 'The Leto Bundle' unfolds.

Room XIX of the Museum of Albion doesn't usually receive many visitors. But one day a crowd of dispossessed, immigrants and homeless - urban flotsam - gather there and demand to see a mummy that has recently been removed.

As political pressure builds, the curator unpacks the exhibit and has to explain its bizarre contents, and herself, to the passionate young man who has adopted the mummy as a figurehead. The tomb contains a miscellany of objects and documents, some written on the mummy bands themselves, others in a ship's diary, which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto.

As Leto moves gradually westwards across the map from her childhood home, she slips through time. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, she gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a chamber maid in a wartorn city. In a bombing attack she saves her daughter, but loses her son.

As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages, to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe, and ultimately to the present day, Leto reappears, with her daughter, in different guises. Eventually, in modern-day "Albion", Leto becomes a servant in the household of a rock singer; there, she begins to search for her son.

Inspired by dramatic chronicles and contemporary events, 'The Leto Bundle' retells the story of the eternal refugee in a magical modern novel of huge scope and imaginative force.
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