Sinuhe the Egyptian: A Novel Summary
Mika Waltari

Sinuhe the Egyptian: A Novel Summary

Sinuhe the Egyptian is the memoirs of a physician who wants to treat the poor but is drawn into politics and warfare, feeling himself fated always to be alone—perhaps because he is a son of a Pharaoh cast upon the waters of the Nile at birth.

Exiled from his beloved Thebes, Sinuhe records the events of his life, in which he can never marry, have children, and treat the...

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