A review by lakecake
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch

4.0

This was a really enjoyable story told in layers—starting with most recent times and events and ending with a discussion of Gilgamesh itself, and a dash of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as the epilogue just to spice things up. The rediscovery of The Epic of Gilgamesh is fascinating and infuriating in near equal measure throughout its history, and Damrosh does a thorough but incredibly consumable job of laying it out for the audience.