out of egypt: a memoir review

This beautifully written book combines the sensuousness of Lawrence Durrell, the magic of Garcia Marquez, and the realism of intimate observation. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for Out of Egypt: A Memoir, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in Manhattan. Read full review, the other reviews summed it up perfectly.

Out of Egypt was a fascinating read & thoroughly engrossing. This definitely won't be the last book I read by Mr. Aciman. Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt is an amazing book, I found it very hard to put down.

This page works best with JavaScript. What a cast of characters! Aciman's book reads like a dream.

This is Andre Aciman's memoir of growing up Jewish in 1950's Alexandria, Egypt. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2019. There really are no words I can write to describe the beauty of this book; I wept when the end came. The book is somewhat similar to- The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, which also covers about the same time frame in Egypt of a different, Jewish family in Cairo, who then emigrated to America when they too could no longer live, safely in Egypt in the 40s and 50s. I had trouble keeping them straight. I also thought the last section revealed things that influenced aspects of Call Me By Your Name which I think were not coincidental. with the power of words to seduce and illuminate a place, a feeling, a world, Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2012. I also thought the last section revealed things that influenced aspects of Call Me By Your Name which I think were not coincidental.

This is a true story about one, rather large, Jewish family living in Egypt thru WWII, thru the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and up until Nasser's defeat in the Sinai Campaign of about 1957.

I also wanted to know how he himself got out of Egypt and how he landed in the U.S. A Gentle, Incisive Biography of a Flamboyant Family, Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The tram routes, Les Délices, the Athineos, the street names &c were all as I was to discover them 30 years after Aciman and his family's departure, when their goods and livlihoods were seized, so I felt (by what right?) Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features.

An only child, he was showered with attention from a large and eccentric assortment of great aunts and uncles.

Book Reviews' Out of Egypt: A Memoir, by Andre Aciman.

I lack Aciman's irony and wit to counter the grief from having lived sporadically in Egypt's underbelly in Cairo, married and lost an Egyptian husband...Egypt was and possibly still is in some ways, a land where you are instantly transported back to a lifetime that is not known consciously but is at the same time familiar. Every word exudes love and with it a sad sense of loss and nostalgia.

The book details the various characters in the family, their social lives, and how they blended with the general, Arab population of Egypt for decades. The book is somewhat similar to- The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, which also covers about the same time frame in Egypt of a different, Jewish family in Cairo, who then emigrated to America when they too could no longer live, safely in Egypt in the 40s and 50s.
At a time of increased hostility in the middle east it is heartwarming to read of a time when Jews lived in peace with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in Alexandria.

340 pp.

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I had trouble keeping them straight. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. It was too rambling and not to the point.

I have to read it every few months to rediscover the ambiance of a beloved place captured in perfectly crafted phrases . Aciman is as good a writer as I had read.

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2013 Verified Purchase Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2013. One gets the sad feeling that they are being exiled from a paradise never to return again. Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2020. I liked reading this memoir because I am also from Egypt and I could relate to most events. The aunts and grandmother and even great grandmother hold eccentric opinions.

But I enjoyed this book and might recommend it. It’s an extraordinary work of language and art.

i grew up in the 40's and 50's Borough Park Brooklyn where Italians and Jews lived in great harmony...we were lower middle class while those in the book are upper class, but i understood them. After reading Call Me By Your Name by Mr. Aciman I knew I had to read other works by this superb author. Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018.

A memoir of one, Jewish family's experiences and escape from Egypt in the last century. This would make a great movie.

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i grew up in the 40's and 50's Borough Park Brooklyn where Italians and Jews lived in great harmony...we were lower middle class while those in the book are upper class, but i understood them.

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The book shines a light on the formative years of Mr. Acimans life while immersing the reader in exciting tales of a now lost way of life. Out of Egypt: A Memoir. It was too rambling and not to the point. I haven't read his novels, but this is a marvelous book. They hail from turkey, Italy, France and England and speak all these languages simultaneously avoiding learning arabic regarding it the language of the servants and the illiterate populace. It's not a book I would have chosen on my own, But I'm glad I read it. But once he enters as a character himself in the book, things straighten out and the reader can immerse himself or herself in the sights and sounds of mid-century Alexandria. It’s an extraordinary work of language and art. I really enjoyed reading this memoir.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Out Of Egypt is made even more lucid by further losses to the country after the Arab Spring.

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2015.

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Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Aciman is as good a writer as I had read. Unlike any other such biography I have read, it does not have "Poor Us' as a main theme, rather a description of how the actions of the few on both sides, had shattered a beautiful world, which existed, with no regards to the difference between the individuals involved. $20. But I enjoyed this book and might recommend it.

I fell in love.

And again.

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2015. A memoir of one, Jewish family's experiences and escape from Egypt in the last century. One gets the sad feeling that they are being exiled from a paradise never to return again. Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018. But I enjoyed this book and might recommend it. The young narrator and his family are ultimately forced to leave what to them has been an interlude of happiness in slander described as a paradise: suffused with sunshine, surrounded by the blue Mediterranean waters and yellow sand.

A rich portrait of a surprising and now-vanished world.” ―Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation.

Aciman (French Literature/Princeton) delivers a clear- eyed eulogy of a lost past and a family in decline. Aciman has captured the sense of being in exile; only recognized through memories. Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2018. This page works best with JavaScript. Most historians of the modem Arab world, like myself, are accustomed to work with archival data and engage in field work. The book is a very good history, from the particular perspective of this, perhaps typical, Jewish family. Fiction.

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Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New Republic, Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria: raised in Egypt, Italy, and France; and educated at Harvard. Truly dull. It details how their lives changed because of the Israel-Egypt wars of the 40s and 50s.

They are all forced to leave and really don't want to even when the anti-Semitism has become very uncomfortable. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2017.

A memoir of a Jewish family from Alexandria Egypt pre WW II.

I lack Aciman's irony and wit to counter the grief from having lived sporadically in Egypt's underbelly in Cairo, married and lost an Egyptian husband...Egypt was and possibly still is in some ways, a land where you are instantly transported back to a lifetime that is not known consciously but is at the same time familiar. Oddly, though it takes his introduction into the narrative for the memoir to straighten itself out, Aciman's own character is kept occulted in this memoir, and most of what we see him do is misbehave.

This is a true story about one, rather large, Jewish family living in Egypt thru WWII, thru the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and up until Nasser's defeat in the Sinai Campaign of about 1957. An endless catalogue of poorly observed trivia. Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt is an amazing book, I found it very hard to put down. Andre Aciman has written a brillant portrait of a doomed and now vanished world .This memoir is filled with melancholy, energy, feeling and true wit.His style is simple, silken and elegant. It's not a book I would have chosen on my own, But I'm glad I read it.

They hail from turkey, Italy, France and England and speak all these languages simultaneously avoiding learning arabic regarding it the language of the servants and the illiterate populace.

Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for Out of Egypt: A Memoir, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This is the most beautiful book of memoirs i have ever read.

I cherish this book.

Aciman's book reads like a dream. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I cherish this book. It details how their lives changed because of the Israel-Egypt wars of the 40s and 50s. Out of Egypt was a fascinating read & thoroughly engrossing. A memoir of a Jewish family from Alexandria Egypt pre WW II.

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.

I would recommend the book to others who may have wondered about the lives and times of Jews living in Arab countries at war with Israel, both before and after it became a legitimate State of Israel. He has a fluid, excellent style.

What a cast of characters!

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