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Alexandrian Summer

ISBN-13: 9781939931207

Contributor(s): Yitzhak Gormezano Goren (author), Yardenne Greenspan (translated by), Andre Aciman (introduction by)

Subject: Fiction In Translation

Publisher Imprint: New Vessel Press

Publication Date: 12-05-2015

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£13.99

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About the book

Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle class are laid bare in this dazzling novel, which exposes startling sexual hypocrisies and portrays a now vanished polyglot world of horse-racing, seaside promenades, and elegant night clubs.