** RECOMMEND **Bring on the thesaurus for a description
A comforting, evocative, quixotic read.
The story started and finished on a farm in Western Australia and, in the middle, travelled to Armenia. The pace of the storytelling is slow and detailed yet it is sparing in its language and certainly lacks overblown prose. It is this gentle osmosis that lets the characters, the time period and the locations seep into your imagination.
The original Gilgamesh saga is threaded through the story.
