9798255547500 - the return: book four of the descent a novel: 3 de published, independently d2 (3 resultados)
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Independently published, 2026
- Tapa blanda
Librería: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaPBShop.store US
Contactar con el vendedorVendedor de 5 estrellasCondición: Nuevo
EUR 14,25
Gastos de envío gratisSe envía dentro de Estados Unidos de AmericaCantidad disponible: Más de 20 disponibles
PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Independently published, 2026
- Tapa blanda
Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino UnidoPBShop.store UK
Contactar con el vendedorVendedor de 5 estrellasCondición: Nuevo
EUR 13,47
Envío por EUR 3,84Se envía de Reino Unido a Estados Unidos de AmericaCantidad disponible: Más de 20 disponibles
PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
- Tapa blanda
- Impresión bajo demanda
Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino UnidoCitiRetail
Contactar con el vendedorVendedor de 5 estrellasCondición: Nuevo
EUR 16,83
Envío por EUR 43,22Se envía de Reino Unido a Estados Unidos de AmericaCantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Descent is a four-book literary fantasy retelling of the Sumerian Inanna descent myth, drawing primarily from the hymns and narrative cycles of ancient Mesopotamia, including "Inanna's Descent to the Underworld," the "Dumuzi and Inanna" lyric cycle, and the hymns of Enheduanna (c. 2285-2…250 BCE).In the original mythology, Inanna - queen of heaven, goddess of love and war - descends to the underworld ruled by her sister Ereshkigal. She passes through seven gates, surrendering one divine garment at each. She is killed, hung on a hook for three days, and restored through the intervention of Enki. The condition of her return: a substitute must go in her place. Dumuzi, who did not mourn her absence, is named. He descends. His sister Geshtinanna volunteers to share the term: six months each, alternating. The seasons are born.This series asks: what is the three thousand years before the descent? What happened at the rim? And what is the return - not the gate, not the ascent, but the life built on what the descent gave her?The fourth book covers the five years after the ascent. It is a novel about carrying the weight of the cost of return, about the governance of the person who has been to the bottom of the world, about the language that gets made when the words do not yet exist, and about the both - the simultaneous truths the descent makes visible.Enheduanna, who appears in the epilogue, was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad and high priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur. She is the earliest named author in recorded history. Her hymns to Inanna survive in cuneiform on clay tablets, including "The Exaltation of Inanna" (Inninsagurra) and "Inanna and Ebih." The voice given her in the epilogue of this novel is imagined. The fact of her existence, and the fact that she wrote, is not.The series is dedicated to the proposition that the first poets knew what they were doing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
