false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522549m/5497.jpg 5497 10 From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo trilogy, comes <b>Akhenaten</b>, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt.<br><br>In this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--and the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities.   Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death--including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti--in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court.  As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent.  Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal.  An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, <b>Akhenaten</b> is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly. 1902681 1985 Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel total:123|5:30|4:38|3:38|2:14|1:3| 123 447 189 18 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:32:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:42:46 -0700 2009 Naguib Mahfouz
168 pages
ISBN 10: 0-385-49909-4

This is a novel about a nobel on his quest to unravel the life of Akhenaten or the "sun king." Its a very interesting novel, as this nobel interviews the sun kings closest friends, worst en...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 12:10:48 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 12:53:01 -0700 2007
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