The Egyptologist

Phillips, Arthur

earliest edition we have, 2004 Random House, 2004 383 pages

Kniga, o kotoroĭ govori︠a︡t

From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.Just...

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Editions we hold

Aiji kao gu xue jia edition · 2005 · Zuo jia chu ban she · 310 pages
Egiptolog edition · 2005 · ĖKSMO · 526 pages
The Egyptologist edition · 2004 · RB Large Print · 627 pages
The Egyptologist edition · 2004 · Random House · 383 pages

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