"Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful, this extraordinary
philosophical romance suggests an unlikely but thriving marriage between a
writer like Anne Tyler and one such as Jorge Luis Borges."
--Publishers Weekly

"A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."
--New York Times Book Review

"Aegypt is a must....Crowley [is] an original moralist of the same giddy
heights occupied by the likes of Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies."
--San Francisco Chronicle

Is there more than one history of the world? This is the question Pierce Moffett
is seeking to answer when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance
in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him
there. His search will bring him into contact with Rosie Rasmussen, another
seeker marked by loss. And it will lead them both on a path toward the
longed-for country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires,
toward a magnificent discovery.

From the award-winning author of Little, Big comes this daring and
great-hearted novel, which was named a New York Times Notable Book.