Alexandrian Summer

by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren and André Aciman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939931207
• ISBN13: 9781939931207
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"