The Writing in the Stone - Couverture souple

Finkel, Irving

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191148706X ISBN 13 : 9781911487067

Editeur : Medina Publishing Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

In the capital, Nineveh, resides a deep and complex man, the power behind the King of the World. Faced with unforeseen disaster that threatens his authority, he emerges as a psychopathic killer.The author uses his familiarity with ancient writings preserved in the world's museums to recreate a vanished world in which those who step from the shadows in ruthless violence to pursue ultimate control show themselves at the same time to be disconcertingly human.The tight prose and graphic illustrations make this a gripping and unusual tale not of this world, but at the same time weirdly familiar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Irving Finkel, philologist and Assyriologist, is a spellbinding storyteller and a familiar figure in academic and literary circles. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he reads cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. An expert on the history of board games, he is also the author of many children s books as well as the best-selling The Ark Before Noah, which recounts his discovery of a cuneiform tablet that contained a Flood narrative far older than the story of Noah and which led to the recreation of the ark for a 2014 TV documentary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Medina Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191148706X
• ISBN 13: 9781911487067
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Crossley Angharad
• Nombre de pages: 168
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