In Akhenaten, Living in Truth, Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz tells with astonishing conviction the controversial and secretive reign of the “heretic” pharaoh. Years after the death of the young ruler, the pharaoh's contemporaries - his closest friends, mortal enemies and the mysterious widow Nefertiti - are trying to understand what happened in that dark and strange time at the court of Akhenaten. Forcing each of them to state their version of what happened, Mahfuz invites readers to determine for themselves which person was Akhenaten in reality. The Swedish Academy, awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, pointed out that his “rich, nuanced prose - sometimes transparently realistic, sometimes eloquently mysterious - had a great influence on the formation of national Arab art and thereby to the entire world culture."