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Three Ancient Egyptian Novels - Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Paperback)
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Three Ancient Egyptian Novels - Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Paperback)
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This paperback compendium edition combines Naguib Mahfouz's first
three novels, all set in ancient Egypt, which skillfully explore
recurring themes within human relationships: the balance between
destiny and individual agency, the sanctity of the bonds to the
land and religion, and the constant power struggles that affect
human lives at multiple levels. In Khufu's Wisdom, translated by
Raymond Stock, Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the
inheritance of Egypt's throne, the proud but tender heart of
Khufu's beautiful daughter Princess Meresankh, and Khufu's legacy
as a sage, not savage, ruler. Rhadopis of Nubia, translated by
Anthony Calderbank, follows the powerful love that grows between
Rhadopis, a courtesan whose ravishing beauty is unmatched in time
or place, and youthful, headstrong Pharaoh Merenra, worshiped by
his people as a divine presence on earth, against the background of
the high politics of Sixth Dynasty Egypt. Finally, in Thebes at
War, translated by Humphrey Davies and written in 1937 - 1938 when
Britain and Turkey held sway over Egypt, Mahfouz dramatically
depicts the Egyptian people's undying loyalty to their land and
religion and their refusal to bow to outside domination. After two
hundred years of occupation, the Hyksos leader in his capital in
northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the south that the roaring of the
sacred hippopotami at Thebes is keeping him awake at night and
demands that they be killed, galvanizing Egypt into hurling its
armies into a struggle to drive the barbarians from its sacred soil
forever.
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