"In 1937 Australia, a naïve seventeen-year-old girl is awakened culturally and sexually by an Armenian visitor who relates exotic tales--including the "Epic of Gilgamesh" to her, and, two years later as the world braces itself for war, she sets off with his young son to find him in Soviet territory."@en
"Nineteen-year-old Edith and her son leave rural Australia for Soviet Armenia in 1939, inspired by an earlier visit from her English cousin and his Armenian friend and their talk of "Gilgamesh," only to be trapped by World War II."@en
"Het bezoek van een Engelsman en zijn Armeense vriend aan geïsoleerd levende familieleden in Australië heeft grote gevolgen en vertoont overeenkomsten met het Gilgamesjepos."
"The epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War."
"Follows the stories of three generations of women as the author reworks the ancient epic Gilgamesh in Western Australia and Armenia before World War II."@en