Akhenaten

Dweller in Truth A Novel

Naguib Mahfouz

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English

Bantam
03 November 2000

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 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, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.

By: Naguib Mahfouz
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN: 9780385499095
ISBN 10: 0385499094
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 03 November 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel

Praise for Naguib Mahfouz: The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom. -- Vanity Fair A Dickens of the Cairo caf&#233s. -- Newsweek The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz's writings continue to dazzle our eyes. -- The Washington Post Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera. -- The New York Times Book Review Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review