Akhenaten [Audiobook] download free by Naguib Mahfouz
- Listen audiobook: Akhenaten
- Author: Naguib Mahfouz
- Release date: 2000/1/18
- Publisher: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL PUBLISHING GROUP INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780385499095
- Rating: 8.85 of 10
- Votes: 694
- Review by: Arnulfo Bustamante
- Review rating: 8.02 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 2H6M5S in 256 kbps (33.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, MP3, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4, Vorbis, WMA (compression TAR.BZ2, TZO, TAR, RAR, TZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 168
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M46S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In 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, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Literary Studies: General, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.30 USD
- Dimensions: 131x201x12mm
- Weight: 167g
- Printed by: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Published in: New York, United States
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