Author Description

From Biblical history and legend so dramatic in its impact on Jewish, Christian and Islamic imagination that it remains vivid to the present day, Roy Harrison has fashioned a novel acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. His hero, Samlah, a Hebrew soldier in the service of Pharaoh, is caught up in a fast-moving sequence of events that takes him from obscurity to the courts of kings, and from Nubia to Egypt, to Libya, to Crete, and back to Egypt again. In his wanderings he acquires wisdom and discovers friendship and love, culminating in the love of Orah, the beautiful Nubian woman, and the confounding of his enemies. Painting an unforgettable picture of ancient Egypt in the last days before the Exodus, Pharaoh's Children throws new light on the events it describes and brings to life the many gods and the one God in a vivid and satisfying historical romance.