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Sargon: A Tale of Old Iraq
Out of broken inscriptions found on clay tablets and stones, Richard Sewell draws a coming-of-age story in an ancient Sumerian world seething with conflict. Ku-Bau, history’s first recorded woman monarch, is the pivot of power struggles among temple schemers, palace sycophants, devious scribes and holy prostitutes.
Young Atur is a restless foundling desperate to escape the boredom of his work as a palm-gardener. Ku-Bau’s palace lures him as a paradise of adventure and possibility. Meshem, favorite to the fierce old Queen, imagines Atur is her escape from the murderous palace court. Their love is fiercely tested as Atur searches out the secrets of his birth and the path of his future along the steaming rivers and shimmering plains of old Iraq.
Young Atur is a restless foundling desperate to escape the boredom of his work as a palm-gardener. Ku-Bau’s palace lures him as a paradise of adventure and possibility. Meshem, favorite to the fierce old Queen, imagines Atur is her escape from the murderous palace court. Their love is fiercely tested as Atur searches out the secrets of his birth and the path of his future along the steaming rivers and shimmering plains of old Iraq.
509 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 5, 2012
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