کتاب زبان اصلی Akhenatan آخناتون  اثر نجیب محفوظ From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy comes Akhenaten a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt In this beguiling novel originally published in Arabic in 1985 Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the heretic pharaoh or sun kingthe first known monotheistic rulerwhose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty 15401307 BC has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth who questions the pharaohs contemporaries after his horrible deathincluding Akhenatens closest friends his most bitter enemies and finally his enigmatic wife Nefertitiin an effort to discover what really happened in those strange dark days at Akhenatens court As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten the truth becomes increasingly evanescent Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him at once cruel and empathic feminine and barbaric mad and divinely inspired his character as Mahfouz imagines him is eerily modern and fascinatingly ethereal