Nefertiti
Language: English
14th cent. B.C. Akhenaton Akhenaton; American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors + Ancient Biographical Biographical fiction Egypt Egypt - History - Eighteenth dynasty; ca. 1570-1320 B.C Egypt - Kings and rulers Fiction Fiction - Historical General Historical Historical - General Historical fiction History King of Egypt Nefertiti Nefertiti; Queen of Egypt; Queens Queens - Egypt
Publisher: Random House
Published: Nov 17, 2009
Description:
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. Though sometimes big events are telegraphed, Moran, who lives in California and is making her U.S. debut, gets the details just right, and there are still plenty of surprises in an epic that brings an ancient world to life.