The Egyptian Author:Mika Waltari A historical novel first published in Finnish in 1945; an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949. The Egyptian is the first, and most successful, of Waltan's great historcal novels. It is set in Ancient Egypt, mostly during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty (whom whom have claimed to be the first monotheistic ru... more »ler in the world). The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charges Sinuhe's travels in then-Egyptian dominated Syria, Mintanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites. (Note: description copied from Wikipedia; back cover of book contains only one-line reviews by magazines and virtually no synopsis of the novel.)« less