by Terenci Moix · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432070396
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«La herida de la esfinge» is the mystery and adventure novel by Terenci Moix, published by Planeta in 1992 in paperback (203 pages, in Spanish).
In June 1881, a passionate and fatalistic English aristocrat arrives in Cairo with a picturesque opera singer; in love with the same woman, they experience Egypt in opposite ways: one dramatic, she caricatured. When the Sphinx of Giza works a portentous miracle, the mystery escalates and new characters full of dualities appear. On a journey up the Nile, the protagonist faces an identity problem that makes him relive a past linked to the historical discovery of forty royal mummies near the Valley of the Kings, in an adventure that mixes literature, opera and painting.
Third volume of Terenci Moix's Egyptian Dreams series, subtitled «capriccio romántico» by the author himself.
For readers and followers of Terenci Moix seeking a novel set in nineteenth-century Egypt with intrigue, romanticism and an unexpected ending.
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.
