Isbn: 9798196894800 - the ink of pharaohs: a scribe's forbidden letters to the god-king (5 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the blazing desert city of Akhetaten, built from sand and divine certainty by the pharaoh who dismantled three thousand years of Egyptian religion in a single reign, one man keeps a second archive.Hori of Ipu is a first-rank scribe in the Royal Archive of Akhenaten's holy city. His job is to translate, file, and forget. The diplomatic letters from crumbling vassal states go in the correct jar. The workers who die without a record stay without a record. The acknowledgments go out on schedule. The truth stays where truth stays in a well-managed empire: unwritten.But Hori cannot stop writing. One by one, across nine years and nine letters addressed to a god-king who will never read them, he sets down everything the official record refuses to hold: the sixty-eight unanswered letters from a city on the edge of collapse, the children of the workers' village growing thin in the shadow of a magnificent temple, the archive rooms in Thebes burning, the slow unraveling of an empire conducted in the passive voice of administrative procedure. He writes to a pharaoh. He writes to a god. He writes because the truth is too heavy to carry in a body that has nowhere to put it down.Set against the most extraordinary and most erased episode in ancient Egypt's history, The Ink of Pharaohs is a novel about what scribes know, what power conceals, and what survives when a civilization tries to forget itself. Drawing on the actual Amarna Letters, the real skeletal evidence of Akhetaten's working poor, and the genuine Great Hymn to the Aten, it asks the question that every keeper of records eventually faces: when the official record is incomplete, who decides what is worth remembering And who pays the price for the decision.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In the blazing desert city of Akhetaten, built from sand and divine certainty by the pharaoh who dismantled three thousand years of Egyptian religion in a single reign, one man keeps a second archive.Hori of Ipu is a first-rank scribe in the Royal Archive of Akhenaten's holy city. His job is to translate, file, and forget. The diplomatic letters from crumbling vassal states go in the correct jar. The workers who die without a record stay without a record. The acknowledgments go out on schedule. The truth stays where truth stays in a well-managed empire: unwritten.But Hori cannot stop writing. One by one, across nine years and nine letters addressed to a god-king who will never read them, he sets down everything the official record refuses to hold: the sixty-eight unanswered letters from a city on the edge of collapse, the children of the workers' village growing thin in the shadow of a magnificent temple, the archive rooms in Thebes burning, the slow unraveling of an empire conducted in the passive voice of administrative procedure. He writes to a pharaoh. He writes to a god. He writes because the truth is too heavy to carry in a body that has nowhere to put it down.Set against the most extraordinary and most erased episode in ancient Egypt's history, The Ink of Pharaohs is a novel about what scribes know, what power conceals, and what survives when a civilization tries to forget itself. Drawing on the actual Amarna Letters, the real skeletal evidence of Akhetaten's working poor, and the genuine Great Hymn to the Aten, it asks the question that every keeper of records eventually faces: when the official record is incomplete, who decides what is worth remembering?And who pays the price for the decision? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…