by Naguib Mahfouz · The American University in Cairo Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789774160325
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«Khufu's Wisdom» is the historical novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by The American University in Cairo Press in paperback (206 pages, in English).
A seer predicts to Pharaoh Khufu the end of his dynasty and the rise of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra. The monarch struggles against fate while the attraction grows between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, daughter of Khufu, in a novel of ambition, prophecies and wisdom.
First novel by Naguib Mahfouz, originally published in 1939 as «عبث الأقدار»; English translation by Raymond Stock.
For readers of historical fiction, especially those who enjoy pharaonic Egypt and the narrative of Nobel Prize winners.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
