by Terenci Moix · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408020912
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«La herida de la Esfinge» is the mystery and adventure novel by Terenci Moix, published by Planeta in paperback (203 pages, in Spanish).
In 1881, a young English aristocrat and an opera singer arrive in Cairo. A marvel of the Sphinx at Giza sweeps them into an adventure up the Nile linked to the discovery of forty royal mummies near the Valley of the Kings, while the protagonist faces an identity conflict and the weight of his past daydreams.
Subtitled 'Capriccio romántico' on the cover, it is the third instalment of the Sueños egipcios series; the work was originally published in 1991.
For readers of Terenci Moix and fans of mystery and adventure novels set in nineteenth-century Egypt.
Terenci Moix was a Spanish writer, who wrote in the Spanish and in Catalan languages. He was the brother of poet/novelist Ana Maria Moix.
