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{{quote|''"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. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come."''|'''Sinuhe'''}}
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The story is told ''via'' the [[Framing Device]] of Sinuhe writing down his memoirs; as this clever device allows for plenty of room for [[Unreliable Narrator|doubts as to his reliability]], the novel is an impressive example of combining both [[Shown Their Work]] and [[Science Marches On]]: Much of what Waltari writes was considered the best historical knowledge of his day, although much has also been reevaluated by modern historians. The main character of the book is named for the protagonist of a story called ''The Story of Sinuhe'' who overhears a secret and has to leave Egypt. The parallels to the protagonist of the novel is noted by characters inside the story.
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Sadly, the only English language version available of the novel is an abridged version, which cuts the original 900+ page novel down to 500+ pages. The complete novel has been translated unabridged to several other languages though.
The novel was made into a 1954 [[Twentieth Century Fox|20th Century Fox]] film starring Edmund Purdom as Sinuhe, Michael Wilding as Akenaton, Bella Darvi as Nefer, and Victor Mature (''[[Demetrius and
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