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Author London, Joan, 1948-

Title Gilgamesh : a novel / Joan London
Published Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2001

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 MELB  827.03 L8474 A6/G  AVAILABLE
Description 256 pages ; 23 cm
Summary Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-western corner 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 and the modern world is waiting to erupt
Analysis Australian fiction (Australia )
Notes Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2002 shortlist
Subject Gilgamesh (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Gilgamesh http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80080430 -- Appreciation http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006350 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Subject Australians -- Armenia (Republic) -- Fiction.
Gilgamesh -- Appreciation -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Armenia (Republic) -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Armenia (Republic) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92057129 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
LC no. 2001347413
ISBN 0330362755