Also, every situation Sinuhe encounters seems to have the worst outcome. Nefernefernefer whom Sinuhe thinks is the most beautiful woman he’s seen is traitorous courtesan, Crete Minea happens to belong to wrong religion and Sinuhe’s last love bar singer Merit is perfect but they are separated by civil war. He falls in love with three different women and none of these relationships work out. During the book Sinuhe – he who is alone, feels lost because he doesn’t know of his origins. I love this book but it’s quite sad/pessimistic. Sinuhe grows up and learns his father’s profession and eventually becomes a royal physician. The plot circles around Sinuhe who is found in the Nile and adopted to family of a poor doctor. The book is set in Ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty. (I have seen the film, I think it’s very shallow compared to book.) It has been translated to over 40 languages and it is by far the only Finnish to be adapted into a Hollywood film. Personally, I think it’s the best Finnish book ever to be written. The Egyptian (Sinuhe, egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the egyptian) is a historical novel written by Finnish author Mika Waltari.

For my own sake only I write this and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.” During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. I write neither from fear nor from any hope of the future but for myself alone. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of Kem, for I am weary of gods, nor to the glory of the Pharaohs, for I am weary of their deeds. “I, SINU HE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this.

Mika waltari sinuhe the egyptian