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From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil. Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée’s fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable. Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillips’s range and maturity–and is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation. From the Hardcover edition.

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First off -- it's about Egypt (I know, shocking, right?). If you couldn't care less about Egypt, give this one a pass.

The book itself is extrem...more...]]> 4 4 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 17:10:36 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 23:32:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 2 false false Thu Feb 05 09:27:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:27:16 -0800 2009 Don't trust any of the half-dozen voices in Phillip's second novel, a lighter but somehow deeper, more macabre work than his previous look at the Zeitgeist in 1990s Budapest. Phillips mixes fact and fiction to recreate a faux 1920s Egypt full of devious scenes, smart banter, and narrative tricks, pa...

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An interesting scenario told in a brilliant format, with a disappointing ending. The dust jacket (as shown here on Goodreads), boasts of an unpredictable ending, but I (not the brightest or readers) saw it coming for at least half the book.

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The format in which it is written is extremely clever. The story is told by two characters, the first is an archeologist who is trying to find the tomb of a possibly fictional Pharoah. His stor...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 02 08:24:02 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 09:29:29 -0700 2008 English Passengers, incidentally).

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L'un ne survivra pas à la guerre mais l'autre, Ralph Trilipush, mettra tout en œuvre pour mener à bien leurs recherches, déterminé à découvri...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 15:41:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:40:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 23 10:13:45 -0700 2007 Fri May 02 09:46:53 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 10:44:59 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:50:01 -0800 2009
The jacket blurb suggests that the novel contains twists and surprises----but I found one of the major "questions" foreshadowed early on; this is not...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=212474