Scoprendo Tuta

Il romanzo tratta un evento storico di impareggiabile interesse, che l'autore è riuscito solo parzialmente a suscitare; ha smarrito un po' il senso della scoperta, togliendo al lettore proprio quel legame che avrebbe dovuto tenerlo abbracciato alle pagine.
Da leggere per farsi un quadro degli avvenimenti che hanno portato alla scoperta del faraone più famoso di tutti i tempi, non tanto per riviverne il fascino.

Excellent book if you have visited Luxor and Valley of the Kings! I wish I had read this before my trip..

I enjoyed this book. It ended rather abruptly. I would have like a few more details at what Carter was up to at the end. But still a good read. Thank you to the Author!

Bien qu’on apprenne plein de choses sur les difficultés de Howard Carter et sur le contexte des fouilles archéologiques en Égypte, le roman est long, laborieux et redondant. On finit par se lasser.

I always enjoy seeing Egypt through the eyes of Christian Jacq.
I've said before how much I wish I could read his works in their native French. A translation can easily detract from the feel of a novel, and there were a few times in this book where I paused; thrown by a word choice or sentence structure. I maintain that the translation style of Mary Feeney in Jacq's Ramses series was superior, despite a few anachronistic idioms here and there, but The Tutankhamun Affair read well overall.
To be fair, it's hard to go wrong when you put me and Egypt together.

I think I like his novels set in ancient Egypt more but I enjoyed this one too. The finding of Tutankhamun is one of the most exciting things in egyptology.

Simply delightful! I loved it to bits. Being an archaeologist I appreciated even more the descriptions about the excavation and the recording of artefacts. The details are amazing and offer a better understanding of the events which surrounded the discovery and early study of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Christian Jacq's books are always good but this one is mesmerizing.

I felt like this was wonderful historical fiction retelling of Howard Carter and his discovery of Tutankamun.

Um escrita maçuda e errática, muitas vezes difícil de acompanhar e entender.... 2 estrelas pela temática e pesquisa exaustiva do autor. Não recomendo....

I love Christian jacqs books as his egyptian facts are all correct. Sometimes the english translation has not been done well. This is one of the good ones.

The perfect historical book that didn't bore me for even a second and that I completely devoured page by page,chapter by chapter.
The disadvantages of historical books are that they usually are big but slow and that they can info-dump and don't have really lively characters,plot or dialogue,but this book had all this and included witty remarks and speech.
I felt like everything was happening right in front of my eyes and I was stunned by the beauty of the whole story and the writing.
On another note,I was really saddened and disgusted by the way people treated a passionate genius who gave his soul to Egypt like Carter.I hope that Carter at least died happy and I'm glad that he fulfilled his dream.
5/5 stars!!

Questo libro ha risvegliato in me la passione per l'egittologia che mi ha intrigato 35 anni fa grazie al viaggio di nozze nella Valle dei Re e lungo il Nilo. La storia descritta è quella della scoperta della tomba più famosa d'Egitto e dei protagonisti storici con tutte le loro fragilità e passioni, nonché tutte le difficoltà e gli scontri con la burocrazia e la politica.