Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth

Naguib Mahfouz

In Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz tells with remarkable insight the story of the heretic pharaoh whose iconoclastic and controversial career has such resonance with modern sensibilities. Years after the kings death, a young man with a passion for the truth questions the pharaohs contemporaries including his closest friends, his bitterest enemies, and his enigmatic wife Nefertitiin an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenatens court. As they each report their version of events, Mahfouz allows his readers to decide for themselves the truth about Akhenaten.