The Egyptologist
A Cultural, Fiction, Mystery book. Phillips, whose work in his debut novel, Prague, gained much acclaim manages to...
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil. Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée’s fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets...
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- Pages: 383 pages
- ISBN: 9781400062508 / 1400062500
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This book had a lot of things going for it. For one, it was funny. I don't often laugh out loud when I read books, but I cracked up several times during the course of this one. The author has a tremendous knack for phrasing, and it's used to full advantage during the funnier parts of this novel. But, there's a whole lot more going on... Phillips, whose work in his debut novel, Prague, gained much acclaim manages to string together a dull, predictable, overly verbose, and frustrating "mystery" novel in The Egyptologist. Having figured out what happened by the time the first third of the novel was over, I was left to slog through this remaining avalanche of words only... In a section of The Egyptologist that's presented as a piece of scholarly writing to be included in a forthcoming book that one of the (unreliable) narrators is planning to write about his (yet-to-be-realized) discovery of a tomb of an (apocryphal) Egyptian monarch who (perhaps) wrote a text called the Admonitions, we get this: The...
