by Christian Jacq · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246423911
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«Pour l'amour de Philae» is the historical novel by Christian Jacq, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (334 pages, in French).
Set in the sixth century on the island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, the novel follows Isis, superior of the last community that still worships the ancient gods in the face of Christianity's advance, and Sabni, bound to her by an eternal love, in their effort to keep the temple and an age-old wisdom alive.
First published in 1990, it was edited in Paris; the cover bears the subtitle «roman».
For readers of historical fiction set in ancient Egypt and for followers of Christian Jacq's narrative.
Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book series about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.
