Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel,New

Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel,New

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt.In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the 'heretic pharaoh,' or 'sun king,'the first known monotheistic rulerwhose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (15401307 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 deathincluding Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertitiin 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, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.

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