Ancient evenings

Ancient Evenings a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-host civilization of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiri; Menenhetet, their creature, lover and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. His hero, three times reincarnated during the novel, moves in the bright sunlight of white temples, in the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile and in the terrifying clash of battle.