You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Buy The Sleeper In The Sands by Holland, Tom online on Amazon.ae at best prices. I was expecting this to end and then the real story - the discove. As of non-fiction, I recommend Christian Jacq’s books, especially “Néfertiti et Akhénaton – le couple solaire” (I don’t know if there is an English edition) which changed my perception of Akhenaten. While this is obviously fiction, and its solutions are those of a storyteller rather than an archaeologist, it does a good job of conveying the fragmentary state of knowledge about this distant period. Was looking forward to this after reading and thoroughly enjoying 'the Vampyre' and two non-fiction books, 'Persian Fire' and 'Rubicon'. For strange papers have come into Carter’s possession, warning him of a terrible curse and recording a story that has been lost to the sands for millennia: the tale of the heretic Pharaoh Akh-en-Aten…. I could not put this down! While the story was clever, it never really had a definitive twist as the unholy secret of the Ancient Egyptians had been slowly chiseled away at. Tom Holland is nowadays best known as a historian and translator of Herodotus, but he started his career, back in the 1990s, as a novelist, favouring eerie, rather supernatural historical themes. I skimmed for a while then jumped to the last 50 pages (our of 428). It was as if they had never existed, until archeologists such as the famous Howard Carter re-discovered them. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Please try again. It will teach you, in short, what it means to be alone – not just now, not for a while, but for the eternity of time.' I was expecting this to end and then the real story - the discovery of the tomb, to start. The Sleeper in the Sands book. Great treasures, certainly, but also dark whispers of something else. Tarih romanı okumayı sevdiğimi yeniden ve yeniden hatırlattı bana. Quite creepy atmosphere but unputdownable. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Such would be your fate.'". Tarih romanı okumayı sevdiğimi yeniden ve yeniden hatırlattı bana. The Sleeper in the Sands is NOT for students, it is a work of fiction that happens to centre on actual people. Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013. Was looking forward to this after reading and thoroughly enjoying 'the Vampyre' and two non-fiction books, 'Persian Fire' and 'Rubicon'. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It probably serves me right for not researching this before reading, but it wasn't at all what I expected. In fact, this myth basically is the real story, and the rest just gives a framework to give it in, and is never really resolved. When Howard Carter discovers what he thinks must be Tutankhamen's tomb, he is reminded of a tenth-century manuscript handed to him (with dire warnings) in a deserted mosque by a mysterious guardian years before, and which concerns the bloodline of Akhenaten. I enjoyed the descriptive writing but found the layers - tales within tales - rather confusing. In Egypt in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter exposes a flight of stone steps leading to a mysterious tomb sealed and marked with a terrible curse. There's a problem loading this menu right now. This is a pretty good book with a philosophical message in the background, though rather pessimistic, unfortunately. Sanırım gelecek zamanlarda kurgu ve gerçeklikler ile ilişkilenmemi etkiyecek bir durum yaşattı bana kitap. And oh, the Neues Museum is one of my favourite museums in the world, not just for the superb Egyptological collection, but because of how they went about restoring the old war-damaged museum building. After watching the recent BBC show about Howard Carter with Max Irons, I was looking for a nice, creepily atmospheric tale of mummies and gods. Then he writes a letter to his sponsor explaining the background to this find, which quickly evolves into recounting the details of a manuscript he is given, which is more of a sort of ghoul/mummies/ancient Egyptian myth. Unfortunately, the majority of the book is a transcript of a manuscript given to Carter which was kind of a fairy tale/gothic horror/arabian nights story. And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia… Dit boek - het zoveelste over Toetanchamon en de opgravingen in de Vallei der Koningen - begon zo veelbelovend, maar de historicus Tom Holland is duidelijk geen romanschrijver. Ploughed through to the end as I had suggested this book to my Book Club. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Change ). Please try your request again later. Of all Holland's books, this one is his absolute best. Please try again. Akhenaten's name, together with that of his queen, Nefertiti ("a beautiful woman has arrived"), and his heir and successor, Tutankhamun, were erased from all buildings, monuments and records after their deaths as ancient Egypt reverted back to the worship of their old gods. I do like a bit of Gothic fiction and Holland’s novel definitely delivers on that score, with a taste for melodramatic horror. So if you are undecided whether to read this based on other reviews - just remember that it is a piece of fiction and not real life as some of the other reviewers seem to think! One of my new favorites. There was a problem loading your book clubs. While the story was clever, it never really had a definitive twist as the unholy secret of the Ancient Egyptians had been slowly chiseled away at rather than definitively unveiled. 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