The Leto Bundse Marina Warner
(Vintage)
When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman,Leto.
On the run,in a far-off era of civil strife,Leto gives birth to twins,shelters with wolves,survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander,stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city.She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege.As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day,Leto reappears in different guises,Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer,and begins to search for her son.
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