Sīnuhah: Pizishk-i Makhṣūṣ-i Firʻawn (2 jildī): Persian

Translated into French in 1945, this historical story by a Finnish novelist had its hour of fame with its international publication because it succeeded, thanks to never heavy erudition, in reconstructing the "memoirs of a doctor around the year 1350 BC ". Without length despite its length, it is a very sensitive evocation where the hero is endowed with a contemporary consciousness, which gives a very rich and vibrant story of humanity. Out of love for a courtesan, the Egyptian doctor Sinouhe sold himself as a slave. He will experience an odyssey halfway between myths and reality. A doctor, but also a spy for Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, he went from Thebes to Babylon, and also among the mysterious Hittites and among the Cretans subject to the Minotaur. A prodigious adventure novel which introduces us to the politics, religion and sciences of the fourteenth century BC, the masterpiece of the great Finnish writer Mika Waltari also invites us to reflect on the man of today today, pleasure, freedom, power, violence, injustice and everything that makes up our destiny.