![]() The main character of the novel is named after a character in an ancient Egyptian text commonly known as the Story of Sinuhe. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then Egyptian-dominated Syria ( Levant), in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. At the same time, it also carries a pessimistic message of the essential sameness of flawed human nature throughout the ages. ![]() The novel is known for its high-level historical accuracy regarding the life and culture of the period depicted. It is set in Ancient Egypt, mostly during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty, whom some have claimed to be the first monotheistic ruler in the world. The Egyptian is the first and the most successful of Waltari's great historical novels, and that which gained him international fame. Regarded as "one of the greatest books in Finnish literary history", it is, so far, the only Finnish novel to be adapted into a Hollywood film, which happened in 1954. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949, from Swedish rather than Finnish. ![]() ![]() The Egyptian ( Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. ![]()
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