Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Xanthe is drawn to Ithaca, the birthplace of her father, Manoli and her grandfather, Mentor. She is translating Mentor's manuscript, his story of leaving Ithaca and his life in Australia: fleeing the Kalgoorlie riots, working in Melbourne coffee houses with his compatriots, studying in the State Library and learning to dream his way back to Ithaca and back to his lost son.

Sea of Many Returns is a profound meditation on displacement, nostalgia and exile. It affirms the enduring resonance of the Odyssey for voyagers of all times. (publisher blurb).