![]() Sinuhe's story begins when he is found floating down the Nile in a reed boat he grows up to become a doctor and in the process meets and befriends the Pharaoh, Akhenaton, as well as the general, Horemheb. The parallels to the protagonist of the novel is noted by characters inside the story. The main character of the book is named for the protagonist of a story called The Story of Sinuhe who overhears a secret and has to leave Egypt. ![]() The story is told via the Framing Device of Sinuhe writing down his memoirs as this clever device allows for plenty of room for doubts as to his reliability, the novel is an impressive example of combining both Shown Their Work and Science Marches On: Much of what Waltari writes was considered the best historical knowledge of his day, although much has also been reevaluated by modern historians. It details the life-story of an Egyptian doctor named Sinuhe, and his interactions with others during the turbulent reign of Akhenaton during the 18th dynasty. ![]() The Egyptian (or Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari first published in Finnish in 1945. ![]()
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