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Home André Aciman Out of Egypt: A Memoir. I wish to thank Neal Kozodoy, whose help, devotion, and time were invaluable; Sara Bershtel, to whom I owe this book; and my wife, Susan, to whom I owe everything.

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Out of Egypt: A Memoir Hardcover – December 1, 1994. Out of Egypt was a fascinating read & thoroughly engrossing. 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 Hardcover – December 1, 1994. by. Andre Aciman (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I also thought the last section revealed things that influenced aspects of Call Me By Your Name which I think were not coincidental. Reading the two sequentially (OOE then CMBYN) makes sense even though I happened to read them the other way around.

In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life-Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the 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.

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Aciman may have gone out of Egypt but, as this evocative and imaginative book makes plain, he has never left it. .Andre Aciman is the author of False Papers and Call Me by Your Name

Aciman may have gone out of Egypt but, as this evocative and imaginative book makes plain, he has never left it, nor it hi. - -The Washington Post. With beguiling simplicity, Aciman recalls the life of Alexandria as knew it, and the seductiveness of that beautiful, polyglot city permeates his book. Beautifully remembered and even more beautifully written. Andre Aciman is the author of False Papers and Call Me by Your Name. He teaches comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center and lives in Manhattan with his family.

Life at Smouha after the 1956 war had become too unsafe, and so unsavory, they said-too many vagrants, too much dust, so few Europeans.

Life at Smouha after the 1956 war had become too unsafe, and so unsavory, they said-too many vagrants, too much dust, so few Europeans en you heard the drone of ongoing rallies with loudspeakers squawking the latest propaganda. What my parents looked for, and eventually found, was an apartment near Sporting facing the sea on one side and the vast banana plantations of Smouha on the other. My father was delighted with the study, my mother with the balcony; Om Ramadan was ecstatic about the laundry room; there was.

André Aciman (/ˈæsɪmən/; born 2 January 1951) is an American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton and Bard College. In 2009, he was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.