Out of Egypt: A Memoir

Out of Egypt: A Memoir Hardcover – December 1, 1994 by Andre Aciman (Author).

Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the Olympian figures who shaped his life: Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, by turns soldier, salesman, Italian Fascist, and British spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; the father, a diffident capitalist who considers converting to Islam to maintain his Alexandrian dolce vita; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives."

Product details

• Format Hardback | 339 pages
• Dimensions 149 x 218 x 28mm | 517g
• Publication date 01 Jan 1995
• Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0374228337
• ISBN13  9780374228330