Full name: Out of Egypt: A Memoir

Author: Andre Aciman Year: 1980 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312426552 0312426550

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. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives." And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a wider world, does not want to be led, forever, out of Egypt. Similar books: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively Sipping from the Nile by Jean Naggar Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Lost In Place by Mark Salzman Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew Moose by Stephanie Klein The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Slow Love by Dominique Browning Townie by Andre Dubus Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden