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Chargement... Gilgamesh (2001)par Joan LONDON
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Just found it hard to get into this story. The characters lacked depth and the story lacked details. It was hard to find credability in Edith's journey. Everything just went to smoothly or coincidentally. ( ) Enjoyable if implausible By sally tarbox on 25 Mar. 2014 This started out brilliantly, following a family on a failing Australian farmstead in the 30s. But then it all started to feel terribly implausible, as Edith sets off for Armenia to seek her child's father... Nonetheless it's very vivid and haunting writing. A very easy to read novel, a bit far-fetched at times. It seems incredible that our heroine Edith took her young baby on an epic journey from a farm in Western Australia to Armenia to find his father. However Edith had no idea what she was undertaking and her journey becomes a wonderful story of her resilience and the lengths to which she will go to protect her son and follow her "dream". She meets some great characters along the way and the writer links the story of Gilgamesh , a legendary king of Uruk in ancient Mesopotamia with Edith's journey. I really loved her descriptions of the middle eastern countryside and the lifestyles of the people, which contrasted so much with Edith's life experience. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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