By Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-Hassabo
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and writer of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a desirable paintings of fiction in regards to the such a lot notorious pharaoh of old Egypt.
In this beguiling novel, initially released in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with striking perception the tale of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first recognized monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and debatable reign through the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with glossy sensibilities. Narrating the radical is a tender guy with a keenness for the reality, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his terrible death--including Akhenaten's closest associates, his so much sour enemies, and at last his enigmatic spouse, Nefertiti--in an attempt to find what fairly occurred in these unusual, darkish days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and every of the topics he interviews give a contribution their model of Akhenaten, "the fact" turns into more and more evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses the entire contradictions his matters see in him: immediately merciless and empathic, female and barbaric, mad and divinely encouraged, his personality, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily glossy, and fascinatingly ethereal. An formidable and really lucid and obtainable e-book, Akhenaten is a piece basically Mahfouz may possibly render so elegantly, so irresistibly.
Read or Download Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth PDF
Similar african books
Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society (St. Antony's)
This e-book appears to be like at anti-apartheid as a part of the historical past of current worldwide politics. It presents the 1st comparative research of other sections of the transnational anti-apartheid stream. the writer emphasizes the significance of a ancient standpoint on political cultures, social routine, and international civil society.
Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa
In response to the Afrobarometer, a survey study venture, this exam of public opinion in sub-Saharan Africa finds what usual Africans take into consideration democracy and industry reforms, topics on which just about not anything is differently identified. The authors display that frequent help for democracy in Africa is shallow and that Africans as a result think trapped among kingdom and industry.
No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa
The militarization of refugees and internally displaced folks (IDPs), specifically in Africa, is inflicting growing to be alarm in the humanitarian and improvement groups. The deliberate and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens entry to asylum in addition to safety. yet whereas the coverage debates rage over how one can care for armed refugees and the way to avoid their spill-over into neighbouring international locations, unusually little learn has been performed to provide an explanation for why displaced humans arm themselves or how militarization impacts the neighborhood and host populations.
Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Into the Cannibal's Pot: classes for the United States from post-Apartheid South Africa is a polemical paintings anchored in background, fact, truth, and the political philosophy of classical liberalism. it's a manifesto opposed to mass society, arguing opposed to uncooked, ripe, democracy, the following (in the US), there (in South Africa), and in all places.
- An African Green Revolution: Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms
- African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture: Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May–2 June 1995
- Understanding Namibia: The Trials of Independence
- The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies
Additional resources for Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
Example text
I waited patiently, until at last he laced his fingers and rested his hands in his lap. I first received reports about Akhenaten when he was still a young boy. I had my eyes in the palace, men who had dedicated themselves to the service of Amun and the country. They told me that the crown prince nurtured a suspicious affinity for Aten, favoring him over Amun, master of all deities. I learned that every day at dawn the boy went to a secluded spot on the Nile bank to greet the sunrise in solitude.
Have you heard the nightingale sing, or the doves coo? ” I knew that there was nothing I could do. He was like a tree and I could not stop him from growing. I conveyed my fears to the queen, but she did not share my concerns. “He is still an innocent child, Ay,” she said. “He will learn more of this life as he grows. ” The pious young prince started his military training along with the sons of the nobles. He detested it, possibly because of his physical weakness. Soon he rejected the training, thus admitting a failure not befitting a king's son.
A few days later, I found the crown prince waiting for me in his favorite part of the garden. “You reported me as usual, Master,” he smiled reproachfully. “It is my duty,” I replied calmly. He laughed and said, “The confrontation with my father was rather interesting. ’ I replied politely that I was in good health. ‘I have yet to see a madman confess to insanity,’ he said. Then he continued, this time in a threatening tone, ‘The deities are the foundations of Egypt. The king must believe in all the deities of his people.