The Third Translation
NY: Hyperion, 2005. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. 5.75"x8.5" 316 pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters. DJ #1180390 designed by Rodrigo-Corral. Author photo by Marion Ettlinger. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. Fine / Fine. Item #15284
ISBN: 9781401301811
Walter Rothschild, a middle-aged Egyptologist at the British Museum, has abandoned his wife and child to spend his time obsessively poring over the dusty inscriptions of a dead civilization. He is forced to reconnect with life when he is seduced by a mysterious woman who then steals an ancient papyrus containing the key to the enigmatic hieroglyphics of the Stela of Paser. The conspiracy trail leads Walter to a modern-day cult of the Egyptian sun god, Aten, protected by a menacing team of pro wrestlers. In Bondurant's ambitious debut, a sprawling picaresque is infused with mythic resonance by linking it to ancient Egyptian literature and mythology and to concepts in avant-garde physics, including black holes, general relativity and string theory.
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