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(More customer reviews)Readers of fiction set in Ancient Egypt will know that there is quite a variety and range of offerings, from the simplistic (Christian Jacques)to the more consistently developed writing of someone like Pauline Gedge. However, this novel sets a new standard for verisimilitude - the details of political and everyday life in the early 18th Dynasty are almost overwhelming. The novel is not in chronological form, so that creates some initial difficulties; then the characters are referred to, not by the names we are familiar with (Tuthmosis III, etc), but by their Egyptian throne names or personal names when they appear in the narrative or by translations of those names into English when they appear in dialogue. This means the reader really has to pay attention, and it can become confusing at times. But the effort required - and it really does take some active effort by the reader - is really worth it: this is adult fiction in its intelligence and its writing and it repays the effort. But be warned: this novel is not really for the novice reader of ancient Egyptian fiction. To really appreciate the theorising and invention by the author of the characters and their circumstances, requires some knowledge of the period. I very much look forward to the next two volumes in the trilogy.
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