Word: mika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year was Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, a chilling account of inhuman Soviet bureaucracy by a man who knew it well. U.S. readers left it virtually unnoticed in their rush to make a bestseller of a fat Finnish historical pudding, The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari, author of last year's bestselling The Egyptian...
...Adventurer, by Mika Waltari...
...ADVENTURER (377 pp.) - Mika Waltari-Putnam...
...standard formula for making a historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has his own way of handling the formula: double the quantities, double the result. Last year, U.S. readers got their first taste of the treatment in The Egyptian, a story of how a local fellah made good with the ladies in the 14th Century B.C. It sold more than 500,000 copies, held first place on bestseller lists for over three months, and still ranks in the top dozen...
...Debby?Max Steels. 2. The Wall? John Hersey. 3. Burmese Days?George Orwell 4. The Egyptian? Mika Waltari. 5. The Naked and the Dead?Norman Mailer...