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Damu the Sumerian travels endlessly through history. He sees the Sumerian city-states fade and the Akkadian kingdom rise, the Babylonian and Assyrian civilisations grow and fall, and the invasions, occupations and upheavals that shook the land between the rivers as states and empires came and went, down to the 2010s. A copyist of tablets and a teller of tales, he is witness and chronicler at once, and his journey from the Sumerian city of Kullab to Nineveh draws on the Epic of Gilgamesh and its dream of eternal life. The novel is told in six books named after the media of writing, from clay tablets to the computer.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iraq

First published

2025 by Dar Rashm

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789938746020 (original)