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Alexandrian Summer (Paperback)
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"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.
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