Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth

Doubleday, New York, 1999. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 168 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Doubleday, New York, 1999. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: End pages marked with library stamps, spine unmarked, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Translated by Peter Theroux. SYNOPSIS: Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN/EAN: 9780385499095. Inventory No: 24030071.. 9780385499095