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Total pages original book: 352
Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 30M14S (8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: This richly coloured memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvellous eccentrics who shaped his life: the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; and Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything 'at least twice in their lives.' And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a wider world, does not want to be led, forever, out of Egypt.
Other categories, genre or collection: True Story Books, Biography: General, African History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Jewish Studies, Memoirs