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The
2003 Award
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Gilgamesh by Joan London
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Picador Australia ISBN 0330362755 |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-west 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 child set off on an impossible journey of their own, to find themselves 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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Joan London is the author of two collections of stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year 1986 and the Western Australia Week Literary Award, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction. She lives in Freemantle, Western Australia. |
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