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The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells. Sinuhe nederhof r english created on 20061104 by markjan nederhof. Sinuhe the egyptian is the memoirs of a physician who wants to treat the poor but is drawn into politics and warfare, feeling himself fated always to be aloneperhaps because he is a son of a pharaoh cast upon the waters of the nile at birth. Sinuhe egyptilainen sinuhe the egyptian by a finn mika waltari. It was first published in finnish in 1945, and in an abridged english translation by naomi walford in 1949, from. It chronicles the life of fictional character sinuhe, the royal physician. Regarded as one of the greatest books in finnish literary history, it is, so far, the only finnish novel.
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