{"product_id":"akhenaten-naguib-mahfouz-9780385499095","title":"Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth a Novel","description":"From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes \u003cb\u003eAkhenaten\u003c\/b\u003e, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003cb\u003eAkhenaten\u003c\/b\u003e is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naguib Mahfouz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385499094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385499095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2000 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2000 pg. 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2000 pg. 1328","brand":"Naguib Mahfouz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993955991807,"sku":"9780385499095","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c674c0b-a268-4fdb-a6da-71e46f376281.jpg?v=1683327272","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/akhenaten-naguib-mahfouz-9780385499095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}