The Leto Bundle
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Prolific fiction and nonfiction writer Marina Warner draws on grand themes of history and belonging in her ambitious new novel, The Leto Bundle, in which a collection of cryptic documents and artifacts once belonging to Leto, a woman of the ancient Near East, is put on exhibit in present-day Europe and causes an unexpected stir. Kim McQuy, an idealistic schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with the idea of Leto and strikes up an odd working relationship with matter-of-fact museum curator Hortense Fernly. Warner's deft command of her material and her ability to create fully believable charactersmanages to both question and applaud the power of myth in modern society, and readers will be entranced with the magical pull of this well-told tale.
