A Word, Only a Word

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Albrecht Dürer and Carl Gustav Carus. A German town in the sixteenth century, a Jewish physician's daughter, a Christian boy, and one word — spoken, not meant — that decides both their lives. Ebers was an Egyptologist who found the medical papyrus that bears his name and wrote fiction to fund the digging; this novel steps out of Eg...