Gilgamesh

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(3 3 3 1)>A warrior impetuous and proud an insatiable lover and a man of restless violent spirit Gilgamesh has been chosen to guide his kingdom in times of war and peace. His strength and courage are unsurpassed yet his reckless heart threatens the land and the people who are dependent upon his sober benevolent rule. He has spurned the gods with his arrogant refusal to take part in a sacred ritual. And they in turn have responded by creating one who is his equal - a beast-man lord of his own feral domain - who will lead Gilgamesh on a remarkable quest of accomplishment and discovery and hasten the destruction of a tragically flawed hero's realm and legend. Moving across a richly evoked Mesopotamian landscape and written in a style that brilliantly and faithfully recalls the great epics throughout history Stephen Grundy's Gilgamesh is an extraordinary achievement: a sweeping saga of gods magic adventure and poignantly imperfect humanity that is at once compelling original and relevant to any epoch.</span></p>