The reader is taken to an unpredictable era of Ancient Egypt, where the struggle of stern priests against one another and the rivalry with the growing power of the pharaohs constantly tip the scales on which the fate of ordinary mortals hangs. Together with the book’s heroes, you take part in titanic attempts to expand the inhabited world known to the ancients, to discover new horizons, and for the first time to breathe true freedom away from the pharaoh’s clinging hand and the ever-seeing eye of the priests.
Knowledge—true wealth that allows a person to rise to the unreachable arrogant gods—acts as the ideal that shapes the novel’s central idea. The dynamism of the plot, the vividness of the images, quite literally tangible to the reader, keep you on edge and make you empathize with the heroes to the very last line of the novel, sharing the choice of their transformed, soul-freed by will.