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A review by revellee
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth a Novel by Naguib Mahfouz
5.0
Mahfouz does an excellent job showing how one person, one period in history, even as eye-witnesses, could be viewed so differently depending on the person telling the story. I kind of loved how hearing all these accounts effected the narrator so much in the end. And Mahfouz expressed this in one, final sentence! Whatever "the truth" was is up to the reader.
Particularly the way Nefertiti is portrayed was so true to life for a woman with any power - either she's a whore, a power hungry user, or she was a perfect angel. She wasn't viewed with any nuance or objectivity by Akhenaten's inner circle. Glad she got the last chapter.
Particularly the way Nefertiti is portrayed was so true to life for a woman with any power - either she's a whore, a power hungry user, or she was a perfect angel. She wasn't viewed with any nuance or objectivity by Akhenaten's inner circle. Glad she got the last chapter.