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Out of Egypt

a memoir

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Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later.

In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the Olympian figures who shaped his life: Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, by turns soldier, salesman, Italian Fascist, and British spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; the father, a diffident capitalist who considers converting to Islam to maintain his Alexandrian dolce vita; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives."

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Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
339

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Subjects
Genealogy, Jews, Biography, New York Times reviewed, Alexandria (egypt), Egypt, biography, Jews, egypt, Jews, genealogy
People
Aciman family, André Aciman
Places
Egypt, Alexandria, Alexandria (Egypt)
Times
20th century

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Out of Egypt: a memoir
1996, Riverhead Books
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Out of Egypt: a memoir
1994, Farrar Straus Giroux
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First Sentence

""So, are we or aren't we, Siamo o non siamo," boasted by Great-uncle Vili when the two of us finally sat down late that summer afternoon in a garden overlooking his sprawling estate in Surrey."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Soldier, Salesman, Swindler, Spy Page 3 Chapter 2. Rue Memphis Page 43 Chapter 3. A Centennial Ball Page 95 Chapter 4. Taffi Al-Nur! Page 153 Chapter 5. The Lotus-Eaters Page 217 Chapter 6. The Last Seder Page 295

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1994

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
962/.1
Library of Congress
DS135.E42 A433 1996, DS135.E42A433 1996

Contributors

Dedicated to
Alexander, Michael, and Philip, Henri and Régine, Alain and Carole, and Piera

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
339 p. ;
Number of pages
339
Dimensions
20 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL797966M
Internet Archive
outofegyptmemoir00acim
ISBN 10
1573225347
LCCN
95034143
Library Thing
27910
Goodreads
115161

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