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Leto, the endlessly fleeing heroine of Marina Warner's new novel The Leto Bundle is the mother of twins born without a navel. She is a minor Greek goddess, or a Christian martyr, or the heroine of a mediaeval romance; she is a castaway ambiguously rescued by a travelling scholar and a refugee caught in the chaos of the Balkans. She is also a bundle of manuscript scraps and jewels and carvings that was for a while mistaken for a mummy--and becomes the obsession of a charismatic young political leader, a fading pop star and a feminist scholar. This is a startling and impressive novel about documentation and identity--Leto is who the documents say she is, just as we all are. Kim, an adopted war orphan, is keen to assert a new Britishness that takes its roots from the here and now, rather than from a history that is itself a product of ideologies. This novel draws together many of the obsessions of Marina Warner's work on fairy-tale; it is a search for lost parents and children and a vehement protest against inhumanity which asserts the role of the poetic in a struggle for human rights that too often relies on reason alone. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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" An extraordinary novel... breathtaking in its scope and ambition... An enthralling read." - "Sunday Express"
" Driven by a mystery that keeps the reader guessing to the final pages... Beautifully written, the language rich and sensuous, with a seductive range of references... Tremendous fun." - "Literary Review"
" Stimulating... vivid... a fascinating debate about the nature of mythology." - "Financial Times"
" A compelling and erudite meditation on exiles, refugees, loss and the search for a home. A timely, ambitious and inventive novel, which blends a reflection on Europe's past and present traumas with rare story-telling verve." - "Scotland on Sunday"
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Leto, the endlessly fleeing heroine of Marina Warner's new novel The Leto Bundle is the mother of twins born without a navel. She is a minor Greek goddess, or a Christian martyr, or the heroine of a mediaeval romance; she is a castaway ambiguously rescued by a travelling scholar and a refugee caught in the chaos of the Balkans. She is also a bundle of manuscript scraps and jewels and carvings that was for a while mistaken for a mummy--and becomes the obsession of a charismatic young political leader, a fading pop star and a feminist scholar. This is a startling and impressive novel about documentation and identity--Leto is who the documents say she is, just as we all are. Kim, an adopted war orphan, is keen to assert a new Britishness that takes its roots from the here and now, rather than from a history that is itself a product of ideologies. This novel draws together many of the obsessions of Marina Warner's work on fairy-tale; it is a search for lost parents and children and a vehement protest against inhumanity which asserts the role of the poetic in a struggle for human rights that too often relies on reason alone. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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" An extraordinary novel... breathtaking in its scope and ambition... An enthralling read." - "Sunday Express"
" Driven by a mystery that keeps the reader guessing to the final pages... Beautifully written, the language rich and sensuous, with a seductive range of references... Tremendous fun." - "Literary Review"
" Stimulating... vivid... a fascinating debate about the nature of mythology." - "Financial Times"
" A compelling and erudite meditation on exiles, refugees, loss and the search for a home. A timely, ambitious and inventive novel, which blends a reflection on Europe's past and present traumas with rare story-telling verve." - "Scotland on Sunday"
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