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The Tablet of Destinies

English

By (author): Roberto Calasso

Translated by: Tim Parks

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood

A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals, and saved these living creatures from the Flood.

Rather than punish Utnapishtim for his disobedience, Enlil, King of the gods, granted the mortal eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. Thousands of years later, when Sinbad the Sailor is shipwrecked and arrives on that very same island, the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation and sacrifice.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 100g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 194mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141998459

About Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka K. Tiepolo Pink La Folie Baudelaire Ardor The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.

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