Whenever I undertake a novel, book or even some tourist infomercial about Egypt, the great novel by José Luis Sampedro comes to mind: The old mermaid.
Thus, any novel has a lot to lose in comparison. But the truth is that I soon put that unrivaled reference aside and get into flour with what I have in hand.
At book the daughter of the sun, Nacho Ares masterfully delves, as a good Egyptologist that he is, in a specific period of the Egyptian Empire in which Thebes was still known as Uaset, which leads us beyond a thousand years before Christ.
The great city, prosperous and organized around the riverbed of the Nile, is suffering a brutal plague that is spreading among the population with dire consequences for a large part of its citizens. Little by little the great city is reducing its population in the face of a disease that has no signs of ever ending.
Meanwhile, between misery, disease and destruction, the priests hide in their privileges and in their respected figure to continue in their unbreakable status, similar to that of Pharaoh Akhenaten himself.
The extreme situation that exists in the city strains the position of the pharaoh to the maximum, who decides to deprive the parasitic religious caste of so many privileges and perks.
The priests of the god Amon rebel and will not hesitate to incite the will of the people against their pharaoh. They control the deep-rooted beliefs of the people and consider that they can put them on their side no matter what, frightening them as almost always or even stirring them up through that same fear of Amun.
The conflict between the two powerful factions moves an interesting plot that presents us in a pleasant and precious way the lives of each other, at the level of any of the strata in which that remote society was established. Special consideration has the character of Isis, who became an advisor to her powerful brother the Pharaoh.
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