The Etruscan - first US edition

by Mika Waltari

Through the story of Turms, an Etruscan wanderer looking for a place to call 'home', this novel ties together the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean during the push of the Persians into Asia Minor and Egypt. The whole Mediterranean was living in fear that the Persians would conquer and destroy them. The story actually begins in the second chapter. The first chapter can mislead the reader much in the same way that Hawthorne's first chapter of The Scarlet Letter, The Toll House, misleads the reader into thinking that the novel is a textbook and not a novel.

Originally written in Finish in 1964' translated by Lily Leino, this novel takes place over 2500 years ago, between the glory years of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Book is nice and tight, red cloth with black lettering, first edition; mismatched jacket is slightly chipped at top of spine, price-clipped, and second printing.