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Alexandrian Summer

Alexandrian Summer

Gormezano Goren, Yitzhak
Aciman, André
Greenspan, Yardenne

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ISBN10: 1939931207
ISBN13: 9781939931207
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: May 12 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Helps show why postwar Alexandria inspires nostalgia and avidity in seemingly everyone who knew it ... The result is what summer reading should be: fast, carefree, visceral, and incipiently lubricious.-- The New Yorker

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 nightclubs. Hamdi-Ali senior is an old-time patriarch with more than a dash of strong Turkish blood. His handsome elder son, a promising horse jockey, can't afford sexual frustration, as it leads him to overeat and imperil his career, but the woman he lusts after won't let him get beyond undoing a few buttons. Victor, the younger son, takes his pleasure with other boys. But the true heroine of the story--richly evoked in a pungent upstairs/downstairs mix--is the raucous, seductive city of Alexandria itself. Published in Hebrew in 1978, Alexandrian Summer appears now in translation for the first time.

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