PHARAOH's CHILDREN

From Bible history & legend so dramatic in its impact on Jewish, Christian & Islamic imagination that it remains vivid today, Harrison has fashioned a novel acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. His hero, Samlah, a Hebrew soldier in the service of Pharaoh, is caught up in a fast-moving sequence of events that takes him from obscurity to the courts of kings, & from Nubia to Egypt, to Libya, to Crete, & back to Egypt ... In his wanderings he acquires wisdom & discovers friendship & love, culminating in the love of Orah the beautiful Nubian woman, & the confounding of his enemies. Painting an unforgettable picture of ancient Egypt in the last days before the Exodus, Pharaoh's Children throws new light on the events it describes and brings to life the many gods and the one God in a vivid and satisfying historical romance.