by Naguib Mahfouz
This is a slight, slim work, in more ways than one. Only 168 pages and very spare in style, I read this novella in little more than two hours, but I didn't feel it had much impact--it felt too lightweight to me. Akhenaten has been called the first monotheist--he's a terribly important historical fig...
This is the second novel by Naguib Mahfouz I've read. The first one was The Thief and The Dogs Mahfouz is likely to become another one of my favorite authors. Akhenaten is a fictional account of the Egyptian pharaoh that espoused what was probably the world's first Monotheistic religion. Mahfouz tel...
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