Robert Silverberg 
To the Land of the Living [PDF ebook] 

The Hugo Awardwinning author returns to the mythical world of Gilgamesh the Kingin this adventurous sequel: ‚;An enthralling quest.‘ The Times (London) The warrior-king Gilgameshpart man, part godis not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the Afterworld, a bizarre reality in which everyone who has ever died lives again… only to die again and again in endless succession, Gilgamesh sets out to find his lost friend Enkidu and fight his way back to the land of the living. Along the way, he encounters a rogue’s gallery of figures from history, literature, and mythincluding H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howardand travels from the ancient city of Uruk to modern-day Manhattan. But the Afterworld is not so easily escaped.