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The Dark Angel
No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed in the diary of John Angelos, a strange man hopelessly in love with the daughter of an eminent Byzantine official. In this powerful novel which closely follows actual historical events and personalities, Waltari explores the passions and follies of a civilization on the brink of disaster. With shrewd psychological insight, Waltari provides us with an unbelievable tapestry of false hopes, dogged determination, and fanatic Musl...
The Egyptian
First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
The Roman
The Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius and Nero. It is the story of Minutus living in the 1st century A.D. He is of noble birth, serves government and travels through the Empire from his home in Antioch. His destiny intertwines with new sect of Christianity.
Lady of the Reeds
She grew up on the reed-lined banks of the upper Nile in the twelfth century B.C. but she was not like the other villagers. Intelligent and ambitious, Thu is convinced that her destiny is greater than to marry a peasant, breed sons and raise crops. When Hui, aristocrat, seer and healer, anchors his barge at the local temple near Aswat, she swims to it, the start of a very long journey. Trained by Hui, she becomes Lady Thu, personal physician and beloved concubine of Ramses III. But she wants still more. She is deterrmined that her life will matter. Even if it means slaying a god.
Sinuhe the Egyptian
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The Secret of The Kingdom
Against a background of the strife-torn land of Judea two thousand years ago, Mika Waltari has written what is certainly his most important novel. Seeking the meaning to his life in the study of philosophy, the young Roman. Marcus Manilianus, discovers in an Alexandrian library a vast number of predictions, all tending to confirm his own feeling that the world is about to enter upon a new era. Two chance encounters with Jews who proclaim the coming of a world leader whom they call the Messiah or King, cause Marcus to resolve to make a visit to the Holy City of the Jews. He arrives outside Jerusalem in time to see crowds—some curious, some shocked—staring up at three crosses on a nearby m...
The Wanderer
In The Wanderer, Michael of the charmed life continues his erratic career as an adventurer with an interlude which takes him through much of the 16th century Islamic empire. The holocaust in Rome singed his conscience a bit, and he decided - with his brother in arms, the bull-like Andy, to seek peace in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But Fate decreed otherwise. The pilgrim ship was seized by the infidels. Michael, chameleon like in his loyalties, became for all purposes an aspirant to Islam, and - though a slave - rose rapidly in the service of his masters, until he was confidante, adviser, military leader, political intriguer, whatever suited his mood, and landing - as one of his owners said - "always on his feet." Richly detailed with the lushness of a tawdry era in Europe and the Near East, the novel is more tightly plotted than was "The Adventurer," and Michael finds himself smitten by the strange woman of the evil eye who has captured his heart and imagination. A complex plot, with successive interlocking episodes, this adds up to another picaresque romantic adventure novel which those who enjoyed its predecessors will want to read for sure.
The Secret of the Kingdom
This is a story of Judea at the time of the crucifixion, with a young Roman, sated with excesses of pleasure, in a period of doubt, fear, and searching. Marcus is running away from a love affair with a matron, virtually exiled from Rome. In Alexandria he waited for a year for her to join him. Then, driven by an impulse he does not recognize, he leaves Alexandria for Jerusalem. He writes a succession of long diary letters, not sent, but kept as a record. For as he enters Jerusalem he is met by the sight of the crucifixion, and his life is never the same again. He feels emotional shock, curiosity, and an overwhelming need to know the truth behind the sign above the cross: King of the Jews. Spurned by those who had been closest to Jesus, helped by the women -- Mary Magdalen, Mary and Martha, Mary of Beret, even obliquely by Pontius Pilate's wife, Claudia -- helped too finally by Simon of Cyrene and Zaccheus, who fear contact with the defiled Roman. Marcus, bit by bit and recurrently doubting, finds himself convinced. Jesus had risen and was walking the earth as a man again. Rejected by the disciples, Marcus finds his own answers, his own conviction, and his own way.
