HISTORICAL FICTION · BOOK I OF A TRILOGY
Joseph — The Dreamer
A Story of Betrayal, Exile, and Forbidden Love
Loved by his father, hated by his brothers — a boy sold into slavery, raised to rule an empire, who spends a generation deciding whether to forgive the brothers who betrayed him.
You know the story from Genesis. This is not devotional writing. It is a political thriller embedded in a family drama, in the tradition of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles.
Publishing November 17, 2026 · Tell me when it’s out
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The trilogy
Joseph — The Dreamer is the first of three novels set in an Egypt that ran on grain and fear. Books II and III are in progress.
Terje Hystad
Norwegian writer and preacher, and for years the head of a folk high school. He is writing the Joseph Trilogy — historical fiction built on the question he watched answered every year at that school: what does it take for a person to change?