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    The Story of Gilgamesh

    Written by Yiyun Li

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

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    About this audiobook

    Godlike Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, has built a beautiful city, but is also a terrible tyrant. In answer to the prayers of his oppressed citizens, the gods create Enkidu, a wild man whose destiny is to first fight Gilgamesh, and then become his life-long friend. They embark on adventures together, but when they kill the Bull of Heaven, Enkidu must pay the ultimate price.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateDec 4, 2014
    ISBN9781471278914
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    The Story of Gilgamesh
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    Yiyun Li

    Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

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    • 5/5
      Some reviewers of the book said they can’t put it down. But the narrated version has not a moment of boredom! Every character and story came alive in my ears!
    • 4/5
      Like all mythologies, it is worth listening to and fills your heart with knowledge and wisdom: telling you secrets to imply in your life. Thank you to the author and the speaker who shared this beautiful story.
    • 5/5
      This was written more like a children's book, in my opinion, but it was still a pleasant lecture, that helps the reader rediscover the first written story of human kind. It is a great teaser for those who want to get ready to dive into the full epic poem and discover the themes of individuation, meaning of life, the contradiction between love and death, the search for immortality and the meaning of life.

      More or less, aren't we all like Gilgamesh? Aren't we all troubled about being famous, being loved, admired...aren't we all destroyed when losing loved ones, aren't we all unconsciously looking for a way of defeating death... and even if we travel or not like Gilgamesh through fantastic realms, we become wise only when we accept that we are mortals, with the only power of trying to live a good life and trying to make other's lives better.