Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

The most widely read and enduring interpretation of the classic Babylonian epic: a timeless story of friendship, loss, love, and the desperate quest to cheat death, rendered in stunning verse

Few stories have endured as long-or cut as deep-as the epic of Gilgamesh. First composed in ancient Babylon over four thousand years ago, this sweeping tale follows a hero-king whose bond with the wild man Enkidu awakens him to the full measure of what it means to be human. W...