Alexandrian Summer (Paperback)

"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 night clubs. 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. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 and immigrated to Israel as a child. A playwright and novelist, Goren studied English and French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. In 1982, he cofounded the Bimat Kedem Theater.

General

Imprint:	New Vessel Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2015
Authors:	Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Translators:	Yardenne Greenspan
Introduction by:	Andre Aciman
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	170
ISBN-13:	978-1-939931-20-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-939931-20-7
Barcode:	9781939931207

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