by Mika Waltari · Rba · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447301942
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Sinuhé, el egipcio» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by RBA in hardback (507 pages, in Spanish).
The book takes the form of a diary written by a physician at the court of ancient Egypt. Sinuhé travels the known world fourteen centuries before Christ: pharaonic Egypt, the Syrian kingdoms, decadent Babylon and Crete before Hellas. Amid wars, loves and disappointments, Sinuhé keeps an unshakeable faith in humanity.
The Finnish original, Sinuhe egyptiläinen, was published in 1945. The Spanish translation of this edition is by Manuel Bosch Barrett.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who enjoy classics of Finnish literature set in the ancient world.
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
