Nefertiti : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0307718700
- ISBN: 9780307718709
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Physical Description:
479 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
print - Edition: Special Three Rivers Press Target edition.
- Publisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Target book club pick." |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Monroe County Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pocono Township Branch | F MOR (Text) | 32378004114080 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
This fictionalized life of the notorious queen is told from the point of view of her younger sister, Mutnodjmet. In 1351 B.C., Prince Amunhotep secretly kills his older brother and becomes next in line to Egypt's throne: he's 17, and the 15-year-old Nefertiti soon becomes his chief wife.He already has a wife, but Kiya's blood is not as royal, nor is she as bewitching as Nefertiti. As Mutnodjmet, two years younger than her sister, looks on (and falls in love), Amunhotep and the equally ambitious Nefertiti worship a different main god, displace the priests who control Egypt's wealth and begin building a city that boasts the royal likenesses chiseled in stone. Things get tense when Kiya has sons and the popular Nefertiti has only daughters, and they come to a boil when the army is used to build temples to the pharaoh and his queen instead of protecting Egypt's borders.