by Mika Waltari · Ediciones El País, · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152203
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«Sinuhe el egipcio» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Ediciones El País in paperback (623 pages, in Spanish).
Sinuhe, a physician during the reign of Akhenaten, recalls in his old age his eventful life: abandoned on the Nile, adopted, he served as royal trepanation surgeon and travelled through Egypt, Syria, Babylon and Crete. The story, set fourteen centuries before Christ, combines adventure and intrigue with a reflection on the human condition.
Work originally published in 1945 as «Sinuhe egyptiläinen». Part of El País's Historical Novel collection (No. 16).
Novel aimed at readers of historical fiction and classics of twentieth-century Finnish literature.
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.
