Increasing culture
When forced to perform a literary confession, there are few more embarrassing than the fact that I’ve never read Mika Waltari’s greatest hit: the Egyptian (known as Sinuhe Egyptiläinen in finnish).
2008 being the hunderdth anniversary of the author’s death, I finally decided that it’s time to see what this book is all about. And got hit with a double whammy - in addition to buying the hardback novel at a very reasonable discount, it’s actually featured in this week’s Aku Ankka as well. The cover image is a great homage to the Björn Landström original.
(And nope, I’m not a totally uncultured boor - I have read Waltari - but only his detective novels.)
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