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Title: Gilgamesh: A Novel by Joan London ISBN: 0-8021-1741-4 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderfully crafted novel
Comment: Gilgamesh: A Novel (winner of the 2002 Age Book of the Year award) is a wonderfully crafted novel by Joan London which is adroitly narrated by Deidre Rubenstein in this complete and unabridged audiobook version of this award winning saga. Drawing upon ancient myths to put together a hero's story of struggle, battles, the never ending search for acceptance, and finally his return home, Gilgamesh: A Novel is a profound and memorably entertaining "theatre of the mind" experience. Flawlessly produced, Gilgamesh: A Novel is a highly recommended addition to community library audiobook collections.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Journey Back To Where It Started
Comment: Gilgamesh has the feel of an elongated short story. At the center is Edith,a young girl living in Australia in 1937. An extended stay from her cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram brings life to Edith in unexpected ways. Their departure sets off her own longing, and it's not long before she begins a journey that will take her to Soviet Armenia and eventually back. I wish I would've had the time to devour this in one sitting. Unfortunately the imapct of the novel was lost slightly because of the time it took me to finish. Still,it's a well written and lovely story.
Rating: 4
Summary: COMPANIONSHIP AND QUESTS
Comment: You know the relationship between wounded soldier Frank and young nurse Ada is not very promising when the narrator writes "They should really never have met." The time is right after the end of World War I and Ada longs for a place where there is no war. Frank says there is such a place. His homeland, Australia. Promising her a paradise of honey Edenic bliss, they marry and Ada and him end up in the middle of nowhere in the bush as part of a group settlement, which is promised a certain parcel of land if they clear it and build houses. As the years go by, Ada becomes more and more depressed by the rough living, realizing that she was tricked into coming but not having the strength to leave. Years later after an unhappy marriage, the dying Frank wonders what the point of it was and thinks that perhaps it will "work itself out in the following generations."
That's what this book is really about. Frank and Ada's two daughters, Edith and Frances. Growing up in the wilds they are relatively free of outside sources of information as they grow into young women, until their cousin Leopold, an archealogist, shows up with his Armenian friend, Aram. They open up a world beyond the bush and cause Edith to long for another place and Frances to retreat into fear. They soon leave, but something has changed with Edith. She is pregnant, and she will feel compelled to seek out the father of her child, no matter what the danger or the foreign country she must travel to.
Gilgamesh was a fine novel. The title comes from the fact that Leopold and Aram, two bosom buddies, much as Gilgamesh and Enkidu are in the ancient myth, tell the story to the two girls. What is a book except a quest for companionship? Everyone in this novel seems to be looking for someone to share life with, whether in the end, that is attainable, is something else again. The characters here, well, most of them, seem to be wanderlust stricken souls who cannot exactly figure out what it is they are missing. To answer this craving, they simply move. After reading this book, I felt as though I had went on a long journey. There's a real feeling of depth and soul-searching you can sense in the author. Wow, great book. I have nothing negative to say about it.
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Title: Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy ISBN: 0743244354 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali ISBN: 0743243307 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Kite Runner (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Khaled Hosseini ISBN: 1573222453 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 29 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Fortress of Solitude : A Novel by JONATHAN LETHEM ISBN: 0385500696 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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