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Joan London

Joan Elizabeth London is an award-winning Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels. She was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She is the author of two collections of stories and has published two novels, Gilgamesh and The Good Parents. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Title:

Gilgamesh

Written by:

Joan London 

Read by:

Deidre Rubenstein 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

8 

Duration:

9 hours 2 minutes 

Published:

March 01 2004 

Available Date:

March 01 2004 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

1740944232 

APN / ISBN-13:

9781740944236 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; World War II 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 29.95

AUD$ 29.95

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Western Australian author

Longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2002
Longlisted Orange Prize for Fiction 2004
Winner The Age Book of the Year Award / Fiction 2002
Shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards / Fiction 2002

"Written in a wonderfully economical prose, alternatively bristling and resonating with suggestiveness."
Australian Book Review

"London writes with deft, poetic economy that makes every page sharp and of interest."
The Age

A story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance and finally of returning home.

Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-east 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.

"This is a writer who understands both the power of myth in our lives and the ties which bind humanity."
The Bulletin