TY - BOOK AU - London,Joan TI - Gilgamesh: a novel SN - 0802141218 (pbk.) AV - PR9619.3.L62 G55 2001 U1 - 823/.914[Fic] 23 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - Gilgamesh KW - Appreciation KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Australians KW - Armenia (Republic) KW - Mothers and sons KW - Storytelling KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Bildungsromans KW - Historical fiction KW - Mother-son relationship KW - War stories KW - Australia KW - gsafd N1 - Kliatt; Library Journal Starred; Publisher's Weekly; Kliatt, September 2004; Library Journal Starred, February 2003; Publisher's Weekly, January 2003; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 her young son to find him in Soviet territory ER -