Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes

Taking its imagery from the legend of the ten tribes of Israel exiled by the Assyrians and lost to the pages of history beyond the River Sambatyon, "Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes" follows the life-journey of a wandering narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons: the uncle whose endless travels seem romantic but are in fact a camouflage for a life of failure and malaise; the professor whose mastery of many languages can never assuage the anguish of his lost mother tongue; the girl student who may literally be invisible; and, the young man who spends his night hours obsessively writing and rewriting the slim volume he can never finish. With each encounter the narrator inevitably moves on, dreaming of home, unable to resist the lure of the world's labyrinth...

ISBN 1592642136   Pages 200 ISBN13 9781592642137 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Toby Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 336 Imprint Toby Press Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 222 Publication date 01 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 146 Library of Congress PR6125   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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