'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story
of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with
Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made
its home there for three generations, only to find itself
peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early 1960's. It is
the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the
emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young
boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his
youth. Writing in lucid, lyrical prose, Mr. Aciman does an
exquisite job of conjuring up the daily rhythms and rituals of his
family's life: their weekly trips to the movies, their daily jaunts
to the beach, their internecine squabbles over everything from
religion to money to the pronunciation of words. There are some
wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as
something in Garcia Marquez, as comical and surprising as something
in Chekhov.' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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