by Mika Waltari · FOLIO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070372973
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«Sinouhé l'Égyptien I» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Folio in paperback (512 pages, in French).
In his memoirs, the physician Sinouhé recalls the Egypt of Akhenaten and his journey through the known world: Thebes, Babylon, the land of the Hittites and Crete. A love affair with a courtesan drags him into slavery, and from that position he witnesses the religious, political and social tensions of the 14th century BC.
First volume of the series «Sinouhé l'Égyptien»; the work was originally published in Finnish as «Sinuhe egyptiläinen» in 1945, with a French translation by Jean-Louis Perret.
For readers of historical fiction and classics of Nordic literature, with an interest in ancient Egypt and the figure of Akhenaten.
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
